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...overall objective in going through the United Nations in the first place - winning international support for a war to oust Saddam Hussein. The U.S. insists it retains the right to strike unilaterally, and is proceeding at full steam to assemble the necessary military force in the region to mount an invasion. But it wants international backing both to ensure the widest range of basing options and, even more importantly, to secure regional support for the politically risky business of occupying a post-Saddam Iraq...
...number of so-called stealth towers, which have been around for a decade, has doubled since the Telecommunications Act of 1996 first prevented local jurisdictions from shutting out wireless carriers altogether. Of the roughly 128,000 cellular-antenna sites in the U.S., about 75% are mounted on towers in the traditional (read: ugly, obtrusive) sense. The rest have been tucked inside steeples and flagpoles, on rooftops and water towers and in giant fake trees adorning rarefied real estate from Virginia's Mount Vernon to California's Hearst Castle. Even Pebble Beach's hallowed golf course is reportedly considering installing high...
...downside for the terrorists is that these soft assaults tally fewer casualties per incident, and they suggest that al-Qaeda can't mount big hits anymore. Yet the cumulative impact of the string of smaller strikes from Bali to Mombasa can be just as telling, making it appear that terrorists can hit anyone anywhere and the threat to the U.S. and its friends is global. Some experts worry too that the current taste for soft targets might be intended to divert attention while al-Qaeda prepares a spectacular attack...
Friends said they were shocked and confused by the death, which occurred around 5:30 p.m. at Mount Auburn Hospital, where Smith had been rushed by ambulance an hour earlier...
...Quakers also captured second in five of the races. With Nadeau winning the only race for Harvard, the Crimson was unable to mount a defense to Penn’s onslaught, despite seven second-place finishes among Saturday’s events...