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...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...
...comedy of a modern West in which the cowboys are apt to pull up stakes to go to UCLA film school. She also likes to traverse whole decades in the space of a paragraph or two, as though to say that from the long mineral perspective of the Western soil and sky, sizable stretches of the 20th century might very well slide by in parentheses. It's the kind of perspective that comes with...
...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...