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...capital city of Colombo rumbled along a seaside road on its journey from Trincomalee in northeastern Sri Lanka. Not far behind was a bus bound for Kantalai. Passengers in the second bus could not have missed the roar of an explosion that destroyed the Colombo-bound vehicle, hurling some of its victims into the sea. But just minutes later, before those aboard fully realized what had happened, another blast violently ended their journey to Kantalai. The two explosions last week killed at least 22 people. The bus attacks were blamed on Tamil rebels, who want to establish an independent state...
...more people hear Pineda's truly stunning voice, the number of critics is likely to be drowned out by a roar of support. The number of rock stars discovered online could also skyrocket. "If you want to get discovered, you don't need a demo anymore," says Ayson. "Everyone's putting their stuff on YouTube now." And the mantra many of them are taking to heart is "Don't stop believing...
...Wild West "Yuma has a lot of it controlled, thanks to the fence, but that has probably just funneled the action our way," said Chief Warrant Officer 2 Billy Dart, a chopper pilot in the Army/Air National Guard. His voice in the headset seemed far away through the muffled roar of rotors. In nine months of patrolling Tucson Sector as part of Operation Jump Start--which deployed National Guard troops to bolster border security--Dart has, by his rough estimate, helped stop "thousands of tons of marijuana, tons of methamphetamine" and countless human beings. It's no coincidence that...
...more people hear Pineda's truly stunning voice, the number of critics is likely to be drowned out by a roar of support. And the number of online rock stars is sure to skyrocket. "If you want to get discovered, you don't need a demo anymore," says Ayson. "Everyone's putting their stuff on YouTube now." It's a reminder to all of us: don't stop believing...
...Danish Institute of International Studies. "They will deny it in public, but you will see a government beginning to conduct a less activist foreign policy." If so, the Islamabad bombing will have marked a key moment in the ongoing calibration over how loudly any small country can afford to roar...