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...subway wore big sunglasses ... he had on a surgical mask; but then, a lot of people in Tokyo wear masks during hay-fever season. The witnesses agree he boarded the eight-car B711T train on Tokyo's Hibiya line when it originated at 8 a.m. at the Nakameguro station ... the masked man easily found a seat and ... almost immediately began fiddling with a foot-long rectangular object wrapped in newspapers. At the next stop he set the package on the floor and strode briskly from the train. By then, says a witness, a moist spot had appeared on the wrapping...
...Station: Academic turned ceramic artist John Wi Neera and his wife, Helen, run a pottery and hotel in this converted 1940s railway station, an hour's drive from Wellington. Among the attractions near the 1.5-hectare property is the sacred Kapiti Island, a nature reserve that allows no more than 50 visitors daily. Rates start from $78 a night; thestation.net.nz...
Like most rural states, Wyoming does not have a lot of money from property taxes to outfit its police, fire and emergency-services personnel. On top of that, the legislature has never been too generous. Until recently, it wasn't unusual for a fire station to hold a bake sale to raise money. Last summer, after a vintage World War II--era German bomber crashed into a building in Cheyenne, fire, ambulance and airport personnel could not talk to one another over their radios because they use different equipment. "We eventually ended up sending runners--like the Greeks," says Brian...
...Islamic connection got another boost late on Saturday night when Acebes announced that the Spanish government had retrieved a videotaped message from a man purporting to be al-Qaeda's military spokesman in Europe. The Madrid television station TeleMadrid had received a call from a man with an Arab accent saying a tape had been placed in a wastebasket near the city's main mosque and the municipal morgue. Police secured the area, picked up the tape and translated it. According to Acebes, a man speaking Arabic with a Moroccan accent identifies himself as Abu Dujan al-Afgani, a military...
Anyone who has boarded an Amtrak train since Sept. 11, 2001, must wonder how long the delusion can last. How easy it is to waltz into a teeming station 10 minutes before departure, pull your ticket from a machine and glide onto the train without any inspection of your ID or your bags. Your shoes are of no interest to anyone. It's as if Amtrak has been exempted from modernity, and all the fuzzy charm of taking the train remains untouched by time...