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...assassins? She seemed pretty scared." By then Lozano said he realized that Sgrena had just been released after a month in captivity and that the intelligence officers, Carpani and Calipari, had just secured her liberation and were escorting her to the Baghdad airport where an Italian C-130 transport plane was waiting to take her back to Italy...
...fact, the bullet train may be the best reason to leave the maglev on its test track. Terai counters that the maglev aims to compete with air travel, and that reducing travel time between Tokyo and Osaka to around one hour actually makes it faster than going by plane. But air travel makes up only a fraction of the short-haul market precisely because bullet trains are more convenient and almost as fast. (And they're getting faster - the express shinkansen does Tokyo-Osaka in two and a half hours, while this week a French train running on rails almost...
...length of the 11-mile test track at Yamanashi, and as I discovered, that's a very, very quick ride. The train begins moving on wheels; the levitation doesn't kick in until the cars reach 81 mph. After a bump and release, as you would feel aboard a plane leaving the runway, it's pure, even, rapid acceleration to 310 mph. The only clue to the sheer speed is the tunnel lights outside: Standing 40 feet apart, they seem to stretch and blend until they appear as a single white stripe; very Buck Rogers. Outside the train makes...
...York City and the surrounding areas, earned abysmal safety ratings from federal regulators even before 9/11. Today, critics say that, although it has improved its safety standards, it's still vulnerable to terrorist attack, particularly one that might come in the form of a suicide bomber using a plane. Now concerns over the nuclear facility have embroiled two potential Presidential candidates from New York, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton...
...Despite claims by the International Cricket Council that it has eradicated match-fixing, suspicions persist that the practice continues. After Cronje died in a small plane crash in South Africa in 2002, some people saw the hand of South Asian organized crime at work. Former Pakistan fast bowler Sarfraz Nawaz alleged to reporters earlier this week that one of South Asia's bookmaking mafia rings is probably behind Woolmer's murder. Sarfraz claims bookies were manipulating results, and that five members of the Pakistani squad were involved. The team's spokesman, Pervez Mir, angrily dismissed Sarfraz's allegations, telling...