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...drama and pathos, it is possible to imagine the Mumbai attacks receding into the background because that has already happened for so many of India's other violent conflicts. Since the July 2006 bombing of a Mumbai commuter train, which killed 184 people, there have been nine other blasts in major Indian cities, killing 300 more. Naxalites, the Maoist insurgents who have made claims on a wide patch of central India, have clashed repeatedly with police and paramilitary forces, killing at least 175 this year, according to the South Asia Terrorism Portal. In Orissa, anti-Christian violence has claimed...
...shirt and hard hat, Birkir Fanndal maneuvers his truck over one of the dirt roads that crisscross Iceland's first major geothermal power station, Krafla. Soon after the inaugural borehole was drilled here 34 years ago, the first in a series of volcanic eruptions rocked the area. The eruptions, nine in all, went on for nearly a decade, sending engineers scrambling to keep up with the shifting earth. Fanndal, the plant's manager, stops his truck in front of a crater where, without warning, one early drill hole imploded into a cauldron of boiling water that took half a year...
...third consecutive match, no Crimson player dropped a game, winning all nine matches 3-0 and improving the squad’s game-record to a lopsided 81-0 on the season...
After falling behind 5-0 in the opening game, Guruge seized control by winning nine of the next ten points to take the first game...
...from co-captain Tay and then Berry. Finelli also had two three-pointers from the left corner in the first five minutes. New Hampshire junior Amy Simpson, however, almost single-handedly kept the Crimson from running away with the game, scoring seven of her team’s first nine points.The fast pace in the opening period left the fans in attendance little time to breathe.After 13 minutes of play, Harvard had built a 31-15 lead and was shooting an astounding 72 percent from the floor and 80 percent from behind the arc.The team was firing on all cylinders...