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...help foot the security bill, now set at $1.2 billion. But even then, we'll be paying for the Games for years and years to come. It would be churlish to suggest that all the money and hard work went to waste. We have a new light-rail line and a spanking new airport, among other badly needed infrastructure improvements. And while they're still counting the number of visitors to the Games, the tourism ministry assures us that the industry could get a 25% to 30% boost because 4 billion TV viewers got a picture-perfect image...
...ready next year--weighs even more, 4.5 tons, and takes 10 hours to bolt on. That's a long delay for a vehicle designed for rapid entry into combat. The Pentagon, while not disputing the GAO report, points out that the Stryker could be transported by ship and rail if necessary...
...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...
...about using the media to express his views. He made 21 live radio appearances from 1999-2003, mostly in the Philippines. During these spots he would rail against the worldwide Jewish and American conspiracies supposedly out to ruin him, calling the Jews "filthy, lying bastard people" and the U.S. a "brutal, evil dictatorship." When the World Trade Center was destroyed on Sept. 11, 2001, he announced on Philippine radio: "This is wonderful news. I applaud the act ... I want to see the U.S. wiped...
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...