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...recent days, a spate of violence directed against Muslim, Arab and South Asian Americans has swept the U.S., in misguided attempts at retaliation for the attacks...
...relationship with Europe. Duncan Smith suffered a setback when he was forced to sack one of his campaigners for far-right links. SPAIN ETA Suspects Held Police arrested 13 suspected members of the Basque separatist group ETA but said those held were not thought to be linked to a spate of recent bombings, including one at a tourist hotel in Salou or a boobytrapped toy that killed a woman and blinded her 10-month-old grandson. Interior Minister Mariano Rajoy blamed ETA's youth wing for this instance of kale barroka (street violence), while police connected those arrested...
Just before the Cambrian, however, something big happened. The deep oceans were made oxygen rich and sulfide poor, Knoll believes, when an unusual spate of undersea landslides (triggered by the breakup of a primordial supercontinent) buried megatons of oxygen-consuming debris. Virtually simultaneously, microscopic algae spread far and wide. For the first time since the planet's formation 4 billion years earlier, the oceans were capable of supporting a population of small-, medium- and large-bodied animals...
...there not a danger of provoking an intensification of terror? In 1996, when Israel assassinated Hamas's top bomb-maker, known as "The Engineer," Hamas retaliated with was a furious spate of bombings that killed scores of Israelis...
...After a spate of attacks in Hawaii in the early '90s, islanders headed out to kill the rogue tigers. But scientists have since learned that tigers are not territorial, and so chances of catching the culprit at an attack site are minimal. Dr. Kim Holland of the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology at the University of Hawaii has been monitoring tiger movements with the CHAT (Communicating History Acoustic Transponder) tag. Implanted in belly walls to log the shark's position and depth, the CHAT tags upload their information to underwater receivers, usually placed in shallow bays, which are retrieved every...