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Stating this is one thing; acting on it is another. Asked whether the new strike-first doctrine was aimed at Iraq, a senior official dodged last week and said pre-emption is at the "narrow end of a long band of options." But it's no coincidence that the new strategy has appeared at the very moment that Bush needs a strategic anvil on which to forge his campaign against Saddam. The White House still will not share--or doesn't have--proof that Saddam has weapons of mass destruction that can reach the U.S. And because no one expects...
...North Korea is a veneer of pastoral isolation masking severe poverty and privation. Small hamlets of white-washed cottages nestle between rice paddies and corn fields, where teams of farmers still work with hoes and sickles. Hardly a tractor can be found, though truckloads of soldiers ramble down the narrow roads. At the Grand People's Study House in Sinuiju, students stare at computers equipped with Microsoft Internet Explorer, but with no connection to the Web, they listlessly surf the library's own site. At one dimly lit lecture hall, students learn English by repeating phrases their teacher recites...
...sports - not to mention housing for 10,500 athletes, 21,000 journalists, 3,100 judges and officials - is only part of this massive exercise. Hundreds of thousands of fans, athletes, journalists, volunteers and staff have to be moved from place to place, and Athens - with its ancient, narrow, car-choked streets - is a transportation nightmare at the best of times. The Greek government has been spending billions of euros building a new airport (successfully completed), new metro lines (mostly completed), 100 km of new highways (far from completed) and a new light-rail and tram system (only just begun...
...last year. The scene: the Pankisi Valley, a lawless corner of Georgia just over the mountains from Chechnya that is a safe haven for drug dealers, kidnappers, Chechen guerrillas and, if U.S. officials are right, a small number of al-Qaeda operatives. A Russian military jeep drives up a narrow, winding track and is ambushed by bearded gunmen. In the resulting firefight, one of the attackers is killed. Such skirmishes happen almost daily in Chechnya, where Russia is fighting a war against separatist guerrillas. Just last week Chechen rebels shot down a Russian helicopter in neighboring Ingushetia, after reportedly entering...
...more than 50 injured when a staircase collapsed as they were leaving school after dark. An investigation in Fengzhen, Inner Mongolia, revealed the staircase was unlit, the banisters in the newly built school were made from thin steel ties instead of welded pipes and the staircase was too narrow for use by the school's large number of pupils. U.S. Gore Speaks Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore warned that a hasty attack on Iraq would "severely damage" the war on terrorism and "weaken" American leadership in the world. Gore argued that George W. Bush had set his sights...