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...According to General Pastika, the commander, Zulkarnaen, helped organize the meetings near Solo, in central Java, where the Bali attack was planned. In transcripts of interviews with police seen by TIME, the convicted bombers said that electronics expert Dulmatin, a Malaysian, helped wire the bombs, installing four separate failsafe detonation switches for the giant car bomb. The prisoners said JI instructor Umar Patek packed the bomb's sacks of potassium chlorate and aluminum powder, while the teacher, Noordin Mohammed Top, was involved in logistics and strategy with the al-Qaeda go-between Hambali. The four men's faces have appeared...
...Eagerly watching progress are Australia's other geothermal companies. The most advanced, Petratherm, plans to drill its own well near South Australia's Flinders Ranges later this year and produce commercial amounts of power before Geodynamics does. Petratherm, with projects in Spain and interests in China, already has an agreement to supply 7.5 MW of power to the Beverley uranium mine, 11 km from its drilling site. The company won't go as deep as Geodynamics. Instead, it will try to push its water through 200°C sedimentary rock, just above the hot granites...
Long, long ago--in what they are pretty sure was the 1974-75 school year--John Mackey and Kip Tindell shared a house with three other students near the University of Texas campus in Austin. They played a lot of poker--Tindell always won--but never became particularly close. After that year, they drifted out of touch...
Thankfully, I have had only near accidents. A few times, I was texting in stop-and-go traffic and had to slam my brakes to avoid rear-ending the person in front...
...fray. When Saddleback pastor Rick Warren welcomes Obama to his church with open arms or Mike Huckabee declares that Obama's religion and his former pastor should be irrelevant issues in the campaign, they undercut the criticisms made by their elders in the Christian Right. In 2004, there was near-universal agreement by religious conservatives that their "non-negotiable" issues were limited to abortion, stem-cell research and gay marriage. But Warren and others now insist that the environment and poverty and health care reform are legitimate concerns as well, and the people in the pews increasingly agree with them...