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...looting of Tuwaitha, 12 miles southeast of Baghdad stunned the U.S. forces. In mid May, U.S. and Iraqi officials toured surrounding villages, offering a "one-off" deal to buy back any looted items for $3 each. They recovered about half of the 256 stolen yellow cake barrels. A local Shiite cleric persuaded his parishioners to hand over more looted items, some possibly radioactive. These are piled haphazardly in the courtyard of a disused school, but the imam, who does not recognize the authority of the U.S., refuses to hand them over without the permission of his superiors...
...Flip a quarter in the Yuki, and get 10 minutes of charge time for Motorola, Nokia and other mobile-phone brands. Singapore-based InfiniTec has sold more than 3,000 units to supermarkets, hotels and universities throughout Chinese cities and a smaller number to venues in Hungary, India and Southeast Asia. NetBooth, a Las Vegas Internet-kiosk company, just purchased 100 Yukis at $500 a pop and will install a handful in the Hard Rock Hotel in May. The company is also negotiating with major airports like O'Hare and LAX to add the juicer over the next few months...
...Tasaday story created an immediate sensation, first as an allegory representing our yearning for a more peaceful, simpler time and then as a symbol of our own gullibility. In 1971, as a terrible war dragged on in Southeast Asia, a Stone Age tribe was discovered living in total seclusion in the Philippine rain forest. The Tasaday were gentle folk whose language lacked even a word for war. They dressed in loincloths and skirts made of orchid leaves, slept in picturesque caves and lived off the land on a diet consisting of fruit, fish and insects. NBC Evening News broke...
...Bali bombings?is not the only one predicting further violence. A chorus of intelligence agents, diplomats, terrorism experts and police investigators are warning that the next big al-Qaeda-linked strike against foreigners, after last week's suicide bombings in Saudi Arabia and Morocco, could indeed occur in Southeast Asia...
...Australia and New Zealand both issued fresh travel advisories last week for Brunei, East Timor, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. The U.S. has not added any new warnings to its preexisting Southeast Asian advisories, but privately, U.S. officials say the intensity of "chatter," or communications among suspected terrorists in the region, has reached an alarming level. Indonesian police who have been tracing phone calls between suspected members of Jemaah Islamiah (JI)?the militant organization blamed for the Bali blasts?now believe planning for another attack is well under way. "There's a bunch of different streams that seem...