Word: railings
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...DISCOVERED. CALAYAN RAIL, a new species of flightless bird; on Calayan Island, northern Philippines. The crow-sized bird, which has an orange-red bill and makes a sound like a trumpet, was found by Filipino wildlife biologist Carmela Espa?ola during a rain-forest expedition. Conservationists believe the birds number only about 400 and are vulnerable to extinction because they cannot fly. Island locals, who call the birds piding, sometimes kill them for food...
...occasions when information got out, says that official, the results were counterproductive. Earlier this year, for instance, an antiglobalization group calling itself AZF contacted the Interior Ministry, demanding ransom to remove bombs that AZF claimed to have planted under rail lines. Two bombs were found, one where the AZF said it would be. Security forces were hoping to smoke the group out of hiding, but not long after word of the threat leaked to the media, AZF vanished entirely, promising to be back. Even when a plot has been foiled and the planners have been captured, the French favor...
...that it might be difficult to drive trucks or vans into the parking lot. Black limousines, however, could approach without much trouble. The report proposed acquiring a limo, gutting everything except the front seats and presumably filling it with explosives. It then provided details on the New Jersey Transit rail system and nearby PATH trains and maps of the network and train timetables--suggesting that instead of deploying a suicide-bomb squad, al-Qaeda may have been exploring ways to escape after pulling off the attack...
DATA GATHERED Terrorists conducted heavy surveillance of the parking garage beneath the structure in Newark, N.J. They noted the repeated entry of black limos but doubted whether trucks and vans would be allowed in. Reports include extensive information on the New Jersey Transit and PATH passenger-rail systems, maps of the network and train timetables...
...Rail workers do it, teachers do it, even judges did it earlier this year. Now top doctors are doing it, too: walking off the job in France to demonstrate against shabby treatment by the government. Some 2,000 French surgeons are threatening to spend a week in self-imposed exile in London starting on Aug. 30, during which time they'll invite recruiters from British hospitals to their protest meetings. "Our goal is to get France to realize how undervalued our profession is," says Dr. Philippe Cuq, a vascular surgeon from Toulouse who heads Surgeons of France...