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...Islamic extremists in Bangladesh may be trying to make a radioactive "dirty" bomb. On May 30, Bangladeshi police arrested four suspected members of a militant Islamic group, Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen, at a house in the northern village of Puiya. Officers also seized a football-size package with markings indicating it contained a crude form of uranium manufactured in Kazakhstan. Subsequent tests last week at the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission in Dhaka confirmed the 225-gram ball is uranium oxide?enough to make a weapon capable of dispersing radiation across a wide area if strapped to conventional explosives. A scientist...
...Human beings made the collective decision to stop living in trees, oh, about 5 million years ago. But the northern Indian village of Renudih has been forced back in time. There, residents have taken to dwelling permanently in makeshift tree houses because rampaging herds of angry elephants have flattened all the human settlements on the ground. "Who lives in trees? Human beings or monkeys?" asks despondent villager Ramesh Dehri, a 35-year-old aboriginal hill-tribe leader. "In this tribal land, we have been reduced to monkeys...
...sights are now set beneath the surface for steam generation in such far-flung locations as Bolivia, Tibet, the Philippines and Hawaii. There are few good sites in Europe outside of Tuscany, with significant geothermal resources in Iceland, which is already well-covered by water and hydrogen power. Still, northern Europeans have been among the world leaders in using geothermal pools directly for such things as space heating, spas, greenhouses and fish farms. Overall, the world's geothermal capacity has doubled to about 8,000 MW in the past two decades, with facilities in 20 countries and an annual production...
Highlights Crimson takes third at Northern Championships, then finishes sixth at Easterns...
...Tikrit is the northern point of a triangle of hostility to the U.S. presence that extends south to the cities of Falluja and Ramadi to the west of Baghdad and then into the outer fringes of the capital itself. Somewhere within this triangle, many suspect, Saddam and his sons are hiding - probably split up, protected by a small group of bodyguards and a lot of money...