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...great works, neither painting was insured for theft. The high premiums on very famous pictures would be budget busters even for the largest museums. An earlier version of The Scream--there are four--was stolen from the National Gallery in Oslo 10 years ago. Three months later, officers from Scotland Yard posing as art experts from the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles approached the thieves with an offer to buy the painting, then arrested them when they produced...
...employ a tight-lipped approach, refusing last week even to confirm media reports, based mostly on U.S. and Pakistani sources' information, that suspected alQaeda leader Abu Eisa alHindi had been arrested in Britain. "That's the British style," says Magnus Ranstorp, a terrorism expert at St. Andrews University in Scotland. "Don't talk about it, get on with the job quietly, and leave an aura of mystery." But that style drew criticism from Conservative Party leaders amid media reports that alHindi had been in the final stages of planning an attack on Heathrow Airport. "The British public appears...
...wild land of their birth. Their sinewy bodies tell the story of how, six months of the year, they lift empty oilcans on their backs and trek a kilometer to a stream to fetch water. "Still, there isn't enough," says widow Dorjon Nongrun. Once called the "Scotland of the East" by the British, Cherrapunji lost its trees and topsoil after decades of slash-and-burn agriculture. Today, fruit and vegetables are trucked in from hours away. It's a scene repeated across many arid parts of India and would be unremarkable but for one fact: with an average...
...group, we are facing a movement." Al-Qaeda and like-minded extremist outfits are thought to be operating in as many as 60 countries and may have as many as 20,000 trained militants on their rolls. Magnus Ranstorp, a terrorism expert at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and a consultant to several governments, estimates that even if this Administration or the next one gets serious about intelligence reform, "it will take five to 10 years for U.S. intelligence to have adequate resources" on the ground for countering the full range of forces fueling extremist terrorism...
...battles a giant monster. Well above average for such genre material, Hiti's strong graphic style and Catholic themes make for an impressive debut. The other surprising discovery was also an oddly Catholic book. John Bagnall's "Don't Tread On My Rosaries," published by Kingly Books of Glasgow, Scotland, collects a group of short stories, the best of which, "The Chemist and the Capuchin," tells the slightly nutty but heartfelt story of a scientist who suffers a chronic injury and rediscovers his lost faith. Another tale imagines David Bowie's diary from his Berlin days. Created with no apparent...