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About 40 miles south, where Kurdish territory runs into the Sunni heartland, there are growing fears of insurgent attacks. Iraqis are now in charge of trying to maintain security. The police station at Tuz Khurmatu is surrounded by concrete barriers and barbed wire, and its 20 officers have new flak jackets and Glock pistols, all courtesy of the U.S. Police chief Colonel Abbas Mohammed Amin has added six new patrol cars to the single vehicle he had in October. Four were gifts from the U.S., and two were confiscated from looters. His men's salaries have been increased from...
...hundreds of rescue workers who combed through the wreckage last week looking for survivors in the scorched and twisted compartments of a commuter train at Madrid's El Pozo del Tio Raimundo station. When he came across an unremarkable sports bag, he assumed it belonged to one of the victims and put it aside; at some point amid the grim triage, the bag was taken to a local police station, where it was added to a mountain of unclaimed personal possessions--purses, briefcases, shoes, coats, laptop computers. In the chaotic aftermath of the Madrid bomb attacks, no one thought...
...very personal reaction because it is an area I know really well and that I passed through every single day,” Gonick said. “I really know that train station, and I can’t imagine being in that train station in an emergency...
Atocha, which was one of the primary bombing targets, is Madrid’s largest and most important train station...
...fire that permanently disfigured his face, his family’s immigration from Estonia to America—to become a celebrated designer of famous buildings all over the world. Then he lost it all, falling deep into debt and finally dying of a heart attack in a train station restroom. Thirty years after his death, Kahn’s son has created a tribute to him on film, glorying in his architectural triumphs, but supplementing the laurels with an honest assessment of his personal failings. Farrah Fawcett wasn’t one-tenth as interesting as this...