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Picher has its own American saga, the tale of a former lead-mining center that became the nation's most contaminated Superfund site. Its creek was the color of Tang, its population dwindled from 20,000 to 800, and the government was starting to buy out its holdouts in order to raze the ramshackle town. On May 10, Mother Nature beat it to the punch. Now everyone seems to agree that the town of Picher is dead and its residents will be compensated fairly. You can't blame them for the twister...
Qahtani's notoriety stems from his part in the 9/11 saga: he had flown into Orlando airport from Europe in August 2001 and was refused entry to the U.S. The U.S. later determined that 9/11 ringleader Mohammad Atta had been waiting to pick him up in a rental car at Orlando airport. In short, he was believed to have been the 20th of the 9/11 hijackers. Qahtani was captured in Afghanistan in December...
...saga started on October 3, 2007 when a local ABC reporter asked Obama why he didn't wear one. Instead of the standard Beltway refrain, "My patriotism speaks for itself," Obama launched into a long explanation of his decision-making process: "The truth is that right after 9/11, I had a pin. Shortly after 9/11, particularly because as we're talking about the Iraq war, that became a substitute for, I think, true patriotism, which is speaking out on issues that are of importance to our national security," Obama said in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. "I decided I won't wear...
...dollars' worth of diamonds on the border of a country with one of the world's highest violent-crime rates--South Africa--might be questionable. But the benefit to Botswana, through stable jobs in Gaborone, is undeniable. What will surprise many old industry hands, particularly those familiar with the saga of Sierra Leone's conflict diamonds, is how the building is also evidence of what the country can do for diamonds. "The way people feel about diamonds has to be the way they think about our company," says Penny. "We have to be a role model. We want to make...
This is the latest scene in a long saga. In the late 19th century, the U.S. government told the Latter-Day Saints that the price of admission to a rich American future was the renunciation of polygamy. The official church and the vast majority of Mormons were happy to come along, but not these few. All these years later, words fail. Modernity comes speaking the language of women's rights, of the dignity and self-determination of children, of limits on the authority of fathers--and even on the authority of prophets. For people who have chosen...