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...over patchy service and dropped calls. The need to improve network coverage in hard-to-zone locales has led to thousands of remarkably symmetrical pines, palms and cacti; fake chimneys and air-conditioning huts; ersatz silos and water towers home to no liquid or grain. One company raised the roof of a McDonald's to conceal some antennas. Another stashed wireless gear inside signs for BP stations and Red Roof Inns. The camouflage unit of Valmont Industries, based in Omaha, Neb., received a request for a 115-ft. saguaro cactus, which would have been triple the plant's natural height...
...Iraqi Kurdistan to investigate Ansar al-Islam, a terrorist group that has been linked to al-Qaeda and that has its base in caves on the border between Iraq and Iran. (The Americans didn't hide their presence; they drove black Grand Cherokee SUVs with communications gear on the roof, not exactly common in Kurdistan.) The U.S. teams promised the Kurds that they would be back, and they have kept their word. U.S. officials tell TIME that within the past few weeks the CIA has opened two stations in Iraqi Kurdistan, one in Salahaddin, the principal town controlled...
...After vilifying madrasahs, Muslim lowlifes and the "Muslim-loving" Congress in his speeches, he even insists religion is not an electoral issue and plays down the violence that fueled his rise, declaring 98% of Gujarat unaffected. Perhaps most tellingly, though he speaks directly to the mob from the bus roof, he tries to shrink away from it, almost embarrassed, once he's back in the bus. "It's true, they are there, the Muslim haters," he says, "but I welcome anyone who votes for the BJP. You can't blame me for that...
After lunch the hunters returned to their stands. I joined three volunteers accompanying Vito, who had become partially paralyzed when he fell from his roof. We drove to his stand: a square of plywood on the ground at the edge of the woods, overlooking a meadow. The volunteers helped Vito out of the truck, trundled his wheelchair over the leaves to the stand, gave him his shotgun, and said, “See you half an hour after sunset.” Then we drove half a mile away to wait and listen...
...bleary eyed and exhausted FM made an effort to talk with the laziest folks— the kids who opted for viewing at the Science Center. Their laziness was not rewarded. The roof was packed with pods of people lying on their backs, huddled together for warmth. Some of the more resourceful students brought air mattresses, but the masses remained exposed to the cold concrete. The lights of Boston, the full moon, the telescope domes and some mild cloud cover all worked against the stargazers. The relative lack of meteors, combined with the cold and the early hours fueled quite...