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...Outside the fort, Alliance soldiers began pouring out of the northeast battlements, skidding over the walls and down the ramparts. The wounded were whisked away in commandeered taxis. A fire fight raged through the afternoon. Two American fighter planes began circling the area. Inside, TIME's translator, Nagidullah Quraishi, was ordered to the gatekeeper's roof and told to translate conversations between the Western soldiers and their Afghan allies. Alliance General Majid Rozi told the Americans and the British that a white single-story building inside the Taliban area needed to be hit, and the visitors proceeded to spot...
...Soon after, about a dozen U.S. Special Forces and British Special Air Service troops arrived to coordinate Northern Alliance fire and U.S. air strikes to provide cover for those remaining inside the fort. Six of the Special Forces soldiers took up position in the northeast corner of the compound to act as spotters for the air strikes, while the rest exchanged fire with the Taliban from outside the compound. The remaining trapped American managed to escape over the dirt walls of the fort overnight, while the soldiers who had come to his assistance remained in position...
...Amtrak Reform Council will probably recommend that Congress create a new entity to take over Amtrak's responsibility for managing the busy, 700-mile Northeast Corridor, from Washington to Boston. The corridor is the only part of the nation's rails that Amtrak actually owns--the freight rails control the rest--and it costs $400 million to $600 million a year to maintain...
...Harvard fencing team opened its NCAA season with measured success at a Northeast Fencing Conference meet hosted by Brown on Saturday. Both the Crimson men and women earned victories over club squads from UMass, UNH and B.U., but both fell to varsity MIT teams...
Drawbridges are quaint, but they are so medieval. So when city planners in the industrial town of Gateshead, in northeast England, picked a design for a new pedestrian and bike bridge to connect Gateshead with the historic city of Newcastle across the winding river Tyne, they decided that a break from tradition was in order. For most of the day, a single steel arch vaults high above the water, fixed by 18 harplike suspension cables to a 413-ft.-long, curved pathway below. When a boat approaches, however, the entire bridge pivots to one side. As the lower deck rises...