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...bloodletting to go. Mazar had barely been liberated last Friday when Dostum's forces overran the towns of Tashkurghan and Hairatan and zeroed in on Kunduz, one of the last Taliban strongholds in northern Afghanistan. A senior Alliance official told Time that the Alliance now controls the northwest and has advanced as far south as Pul-i-Khumri--100 miles away from the capital, Kabul. The official said Taliban soldiers stranded in Kunduz and further east in Taloqan have been cut off from fresh supplies. On Saturday the Alliance launched an assault near Taloqan, hoping to seize the heavily defended...
Taylor has been working with Peabody for years to try to find another source of water for the slurry pipeline--perhaps Lake Powell, some 60 miles northwest on the Colorado River. But that solution would cost about $106 million, and powerful interests oppose any further claims on the Colorado's waters...
...local hospital, drawing blood samples from patients awaiting surgery. That paycheck went to cover the mortgage on her modest Minneapolis, Minn., home. To pay other bills--including parochial-school tuition for daughter Amy, 13--Lind worked 21 hours a week at Davanni's Pizza, a supplier of Northwest Airlines' domestic in-flight meals, where she earned $9 an hour...
...with air travel slumping since Sept. 11, Northwest jettisoned meal service. Lind lost her part-time job, as did her 15-year-old son Eric, who had also put in a few hours each week at Davanni's. Lind hasn't pulled Amy out of parochial school yet, but she isn't optimistic about landing another well-paying second job in this weak economy. "Things are now real slim," she says...
...some sense the House was especially representative last week, because the fear in the Capitol was reflected far and wide. Northwest Airlines had to remove all the Sweet'N Low from its planes because so many flights were being delayed by powdery fears. Emergency rooms all over the country were swamped with people with flulike symptoms: Was it anthrax, or anxiety, or just October? Mail handlers were wearing rubber gloves, office workers were refusing to open their mail; and there were so many hoaxes that frustrated cops are threatening to put the wise guys in jail for life if they...