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...them and communications among some of the most wanted terrorists in the world. In their volume and specificity, the discs amounted to what a senior U.S. intelligence official calls an unprecedented "treasure trove" of information about al-Qaeda's determination to pull off more catastrophic acts on U.S. soil. The catalog of targets found on the discs is part of what led to a heightened security alert last week at financial institutions in New York City and Washington and induced the latest episode of anxiety among residents of those cities--fear that for some subsided when Bush Administration officials acknowledged...
...HUNT: Tracking jihadist suspects on U.S. soil...
...forewarned: the climate can be lousy. I was as chilled as a glass of Blanc de Blanc while visiting one of Moet & Chandon's vineyards near Epernay in July. The generally crummy weather is considered one of the key ingredients besides the area's chalky, bone-white soil that help this region of France produce the best of bubbly...
...rahnjúkar project. "This area is far too beautiful to destroy." Environmentalists like Finnsson, supported by the WWF Arctic Program, the International Rivers Network and others, argue that construction will ruin this beauty by redirecting rivers, wiping out waterfalls and wildlife habitats and encouraging soil erosion. But Sigurdur Arnalds, spokesman for Landsvirkjun, the national power company, which is developing the Kárahnjúkar project, downplays the environmental impact, saying the scheme - which is supported by the national government, local authorities and a significant majority of the general public - will create about a thousand jobs in the sparsely...
...also a geologist, is convinced the dam project is environmentally unsound. Pointing to the planned relocation of a glacial waterfall and the damming of sediment-carrying glacial rivers, he warns that "a huge plateau of silt" will eventually form around the large dam that, together with dust from normal soil erosion, could be blown into storms by the heavy winds that sweep Iceland. These dust storms, in turn, could damage the vegetation that the reindeer depend on for survival. "We are concerned about early summer winds, erosion and dust storms" taking their toll on the land, Sigfússon says...