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...first time since the main fighting ended--though that was still less than half of prewar levels. But disorder still prevails in the capital. "There's no doubt in my mind that crime is increasing," says Major Loy Majeed, the assistant chief of the Bayaa police station in southwest Baghdad. "Now we get reports of five, six, seven killings in a night, and all we can do is write it down." Police officers complain that patrol cars have been stolen in broad daylight and that their small-caliber pistols are no match for the heavy weapons toted by criminals...
...monkeys in front of an infinite number of typewriters, would any of them produce the script of Hamlet? Last month, British researchers tried to get part of an answer to that age-old question when they put a computer inside a cage of monkeys at a zoo in southwest England. The answer: Five pages consisting mostly of the letter “S,” and after the monkeys had finished attacking it, one wrecked computer...
...didn’t simply return to Cambridge and give up on Mansur. “I e-mailed her every day,” he says. And she wrote back. By October, Mansur came to Harvard to visit, and the two began a long distance relationship nurtured by Southwest Airlines vouchers and cell phones with free long distance. “It was sad at times,” Millican says of being apart from Mansur, adding that he never doubted their relationship would last. They will tie the knot June...
...covered in man-made snow and over 100 fake trees, the mall has 220 stores, 30 restaurants, a 15-screen movie theater and a 3,716-sq-m go-cart track. Nestled amid grassy hills, office parks and apartment blocks in a massive ring of suburban sprawl 24 km southwest of Madrid - joining the big-box Ikea and Media Markt that already line the highway - Xanadú is the largest shopping mall in Spain and the sixth largest in Europe. So far, Xanadú is drawing crowds of the curious, suburbanites and thrill-seeking kids. When it opened...
...many corpses are believed to be buried in a mass grave recently discovered southwest of Baghdad...