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...three weeks into the tsunami-relief operation, the U.S. is realizing the limits of its good intentions. The sight of American boots and hardware on Indonesian soil has fueled nationalist fears and stirred suspicions about the U.S. Indonesian newspapers reported last week that a text message was being forwarded around the country that reads, "After Iraq, will Indonesia be the next U.S. target?" Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono announced that foreign troops had a March deadline to cease relief operations. In response, the Pentagon called off plans to base Marines inside the country. The Indonesians also lashed out at Virginia...
...Razmik Minasian, who hired Aude to transport leather goods from Pakistan to the U.S., was arrested in Los Angeles on a drug-smuggling charge and admitted that he had put the drugs in the suitcase lining. On his return, Aude said, "I'm lucky to be here on American soil...
...Keelty believes a terrorist strike on Australian soil is all but inevitable. "The only reason why I say it's more likely to occur than not is there's nothing in this country that makes us immune from terrorist attack," he says. "We have to be vigilant, and until this point in time we have been ? The problem we are dealing with is how do you fight an idea? How do you counterbalance a philosophy that uses religious following to advance its views? It's very difficult." A first domestic step, he says, is interfaith dialogue and reaching...
...prairie north of Austin, past the sprawling plants of Dell and Samsung, to the farthest suburbs, where wild grass and cornfields nuzzle up to McMansions with their perfect green lawns. There, giant earthmovers, their wheels taller than a Texan in his boots, are ripping up the gummy, black soil to lay a 49-mile stretch of concrete tollway. State Highway 130, at a cost of $1.5 billion, is the biggest highway project under way in the U.S. today. It is also the first test in concrete for the Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC)--a radical rethinking of the nation's Eisenhower...
Harvard possesses extensive records detailing how the land had been used in the past, including land deeds and soil profiles...