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...said in an apology late last week after London police pumped five bullets at point-blank range into a suspected terrorist who turned out to be innocent. The Brazilian had been wearing an unusually heavy coat for summer when plainclothes cops chased him onto a train and revealed previously secret "shoot to kill" guidelines for dealing with suicide bombers. The incident occurred the day after four bombs went off almost simultaneously on Underground trains and a bus in a chilling echo of the blasts that killed 56 people two weeks ago. But this time only the detonators blew...
...heads of ancestors. Head-hunting is no longer practiced - it was firmly discouraged by the first Christian missionaries - so the remaining skulls have particular significance as a record of a vanished era. While the rituals and ceremonies associated with the ancestor and warrior cults are still performed in secret, says Garnier, "the skulls have not been well protected...
...part of the New Georgia Islands, once known for its marauding head-hunters, in theory Curragh has power in the way Mao envisaged it. She is usually flanked by two handsome Tongan colleagues and is greeted as Luisa or Madam wherever she goes. But the reason for Curragh's secret contentment is this: 6,000 km from her home in the Bay of Plenty, she has, to her surprise, found purpose, confidence and a sense of belonging amid the azure waters, lush forests and big skies of this earthly paradise...
...February 1945. I was given a letter that told Admiral Nimitz, who was located in Guam at the time, that there was being developed an atomic bomb, which would be in his area, in the Pacific, around the first of August of 1945. The letter was classified top secret and I was the custodian. I got myself a money belt and strapped it around my middle. I took it from Washington all the way to Guam, flying on military transport service. When I arrived in Guam, I went straight to Adm. Nimitz headquarters. I had to open up the shirt...
...sure, the challenge of proliferation has been with us from the start. On Aug. 5, 1945, the day before Hiroshima, the possibility of nuclear weapons was hardly a secret. (At least two crew members of the Enola Gay guessed the nature of their cargo before Tibbets told them on the flight from Tinian.) The key theoretical and laboratory work on nuclear fission had been done and published by 1939, and since the community of physicists included Americans, Britons, Germans, French, Italians, Swedes, Russians, Hungarians and Japanese, no one country ever had a monopoly of nuclear know...