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Cafer Yilmaz was at work in his bakery on a broad boulevard in Istanbul's modern new financial district at about 11 a.m. last Thursday when a tremendous bang shook down the building's windows and walls. Across the street, yellow smoke poured from the 18-story headquarters of the British-owned HSBC bank, where a pickup truck packed with homemade bombs had just set off a mighty explosion. "That first moment was not at all like you would imagine from the movies," Yilmaz says. "No one was screaming or running. If you had slapped me, I would probably have...
Exhaling a transparent stream of smoke, he elaborates his freshest idea for the store...
...TONS Weight of the satellite-guided Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb, nicknamed the "Mother of All Bombs," tested in Florida last week. After impact, a plume of smoke 3,100 meters high was visible for 64 kilometers...
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...could say I smoke for the same reason I do many things I write about in this column: out of nostalgia for times, and cultures, and pleasures, and bad habits of a more glamorous day. I could say I smoke because my father did, and his mother, though both were dead (cancer) before I started, at 23. The immediate cause was unusual. A friend from California, a magical child named Albert Beach, was coming to New York to visit. He said he was bringing some marijuana, which I'd never tried, and that if I was to appreciate its full...