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Commander Mamabaidullah switches off the ignition and alights from his pickup truck onto the desert plain surrounding Spin Boldak, a chaotic Afghan town that borders Pakistan. Followed by four of his Kalashnikov-toting men, he walks briskly toward a graveyard where scores of bodies lie buried beneath mounds of dirt and clay. Mamabaidullah, who is responsible for guarding this stretch of frontier between Afghanistan and Pakistan, stops at the row closest to the border. With evident pride, he explains that they contain the corpses of Taliban militiamen killed by Afghan soldiers during a battle last month. These Taliban, Mamabaidullah says...
...After his meetings, the President took a whirlwind tour through a nature preserve, spending less than an hour viewing long-horned kudus (antelopes), birds, warthogs, and an adult rhino and a baby rhino. Leaning on a raised seat on the bed of a pickup truck with his wife and daughter Barbara, the President seemed to be enjoying himself though he breezed past a pair of cheetahs that were supposedly docile enough to withstand petting...
...could not bypass the elephants though even if he'd wanted to. As the First Family came upon a group of three pachyderms, a male seized the moment to make an amorous move. The engagement was protracted. The President's pickup had to just sit there. Bush turned once to smile at the press pool following behind him and after the two animals separated, snapped his baseball cap on his head as if he'd just come out the other end of an unexpectedly brisk carnival ride. "It's the heavy petting zoo," quipped one reporter...
...Number of small SUVs out of a total of 12 that received the top rating of "good" for their test performance in a side-impact crash with another SUV or a pickup truck...
...Suddenly, two pickup trucks carrying men with shaved heads and religious robes pulled up to the bridge and implored the cars to stop so they could pay their respects to Suu Kyi. They looked like Buddhist monks, but area residents told TIME these men were actually convicts plucked from a prison in nearby Mandalay. As some of Suu Kyi's aides alighted to speak with the "monks," several truckloads of men from the Union Solidarity and Development Association, a military-backed civilian group, turned up wearing white armbands and blocked the motorcade front and back while other thugs spilled...