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...stolen Volkswagen truck roared along the chaotic main street of Nablus. As Kamel Salameh wove the VW through the morning rush-hour traffic, he slammed into nine-year-old Islam Atallah. She spun off the hood like a doll, dead. With screaming tires, Salameh turned his truck and sped off. He headed for Balata refugee camp at the edge of Nablus. The patrolmen chasing him were nervous. The camp is a no-go area for Yasser Arafat's police. Salameh swerved into Balata's narrow streets and disappeared. Soon after, the police found the truck abandoned, but Salameh had melted...
...every last animal. All people had to do was kill slightly more animals than were born, a process that Alroy's model suggests could easily have taken place over a span of 1,000 years. Ecological upheavals owing to climate change and outbreaks of epidemic disease could then have sped up the process, although Alroy's model did not factor these...
...measures simply can't be sped up simply because of construction, but [in light of this theft] what we can speed up, we will," Brainard said...
...couldn't start Ed Begley's environmentally safe electric car! He hastened over to them and gave them instructions. "They never get it right!" he said good-naturedly. "They always forget the code..." Finally the metallic silver car was roused from its standby mode and Begley and his wife sped off silently, looking like the Jetsons headed home after a night at the Oscars...
...markets sped up their stampede, driving the Dow into official "bear" territory and testing new 9,200 lows with a 250-point morning slide as the selling continued to spread beyond tech into Old Economy blue-chips. TIME senior economics reporter Bernie Baumohl checks the numbers and assesses the current state of things economic...