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...Qixia men usually bought disposable SIM cards to prevent their numbers from being traced. Often, they would be in mid-sentence when a card ran out, and I would sometimes wait months before they saved up the money-and courage-to tell me more. Two years ago, I got a call while at a cocktail party. Shanghai ladies sipped champagne near me, while men discussed the city's frenzied property market. This time, the news from Qixia was good: Sun had been released from jail early. "Hello, English-language journalist," he said. "I am out of jail now." I told...
...skeptics, this smells fishy. The vagaries of the 1975 mileage laws may prevent the Administration from raising standards this way without first getting approval from Congress. If Bush really wants to boost mileage, they say, he should just tell his Department of Transportation to do so across the board. "There's a bit of slipperiness here," says John deCicco, an automotive engineer and a senior fellow with Environmental Defense. "He doesn't need Congress to get off the dime on this...
...Taylor says. But there's a more personal concern, which Taylor's men share. The U.S. military believes many of the improvised explosive devices targeting American troops in Baghdad are built and planted by Shi'ite militia. "All of us feel that loss personally and would like to prevent that from happening again," says the U.S. commander...
...claimed, for example, that the description in “Palestine” of the security barrier as an “imprisonment wall” is unfair because it was created to prevent terrorists from entering the country during the second Intifada when 1,000 Israelis were killed between...
...their respects, many chanting slogans like "We are all Armenians." On Tuesday, thousands filled the streets to pay homage to Dink, carrying the same signs. "Everybody here feels responsible," said Ayse Sivri, a 21-year-old student. "We all saw this coming, but nobody did anything to prevent...