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...Last weekend, insurgents twice bombed the pipeline pumping oil from northern Iraq to Turkey, only two days after it was reopened for the first time since the war - and depriving the reconstruction effort of $7 million a day during the weeks it may take to repair. The pipeline remains vulnerable despite U.S. plans to deploy some 1,000 Iraqi security guards along the 600-mile route. Insurgents Saturday blew a hole in Baghdad's key water pipeline, leaving residents without drinking water for days. While such attacks might seem counterintuitive for an insurgency seeking popular support, there may nonetheless...
This is the way the ponderosa pine forests of the American Southwest used to look, says Covington, director of the Ecological Restoration Institute at Northern Arizona University, and it is the way they could look again if thinned of an unnatural density of trees. But time is running out, he fears, for owing to more than a century of mismanagement, these once magnificent forests--along with the communities expanding around their fringes--are threatened by the elemental force that at one time sustained them--fire...
MEANWHILE IN SWEDEN ... Skirting the Rules His employer wouldn't let bus driver Mats Lundgren wear shorts as temperatures reached 25?C in the northern Swedish city of Umea. Lundgren's solution: he showed up to work wearing a skirt. He had found a loophole in the company's dress code that allowed drivers - regardless of gender - to wear skirts...
When a bomb exploded in Omagh, a market town in the heart of Northern Ireland, five years ago this month, Michael McKevitt was puttering around in the garden of his home on the outskirts of Dundalk in the Irish Republic. Within minutes of the blast, he received a phone call informing him that a number of civilians had been killed. That was an understatement. Twenty-nine people died in the Omagh atrocity, the most deadly incident in more than 30 years of the Troubles. This month McKevitt was convicted of directing the Real I.R.A., a republican splinter group, and sentenced...
...Yemen, his parents' birthplace, last year, as the investigation into his possible relationship with three 9/11 hijackers was heating up. But Aulaqi may be on the move. The FBI is asking British authorities for information on the 32-year-old cleric's doings if he appears in the northern English city of Bradford this month to teach, as advertised on the internet, an "Islamic Study Course" sponsored by the Islamic Society of Britain...