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...where men on the ground can frequently outwit spies in the sky. The U.S. has apparently been close several times to killing the notorious warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, wanted for sponsoring attacks on foreign troops and their Afghan allies. But last week he sent a gloating videotape to a news station in the Pakistani border city of Peshawar, jauntily recounting the near misses by U.S. troops tracking him. On one occasion, he says, he survived by climbing up a mountain barely 200 yards from where U.S. soldiers were searching a house. "We were in a neighboring house and could hear...
...boats?) and rushes to his arms. They happen to be wrapped around his real amour, tarty singer Shabu (Bindu). Flummoxed and furious, she flees back to her rich uncle to beg forgiveness, only to notice that he?s dead, probably of heartbreak. She flees yet again, to the train station. There she meets old friend Poonam, whose husband died in a jeep accident and who is about to suffer a similar automotive auto-da-fe. In a hospital after the train wreck, the dying Poonam begs Madhu to assume her identity and give her son Munni the home...
...reaction between oxygen and hydrogen--has been around for about 150 years, though its commercial deployment did not begin until the 1960s and then only as part of NASA spacecraft. Today this technology is coming down to Earth in places like Tokyo, where Japan's first hydrogen-fuel filling station opened in June; in nine European cities, from Stockholm to Porto, each operating three hydrogen-fuel-cell buses; and in Iceland, which is trying to create the first fossil-fuel-free hydrogen economy...
...police allegations that a convicted Bali bomber, Ali Imron, had once taken refuge in one of the spartan cubicles at the rear of the mosque where the staff sleep. He also rebuts claims made by another bombing suspect during police interrogation that the school was used as a way station by militants traveling to and from the island of Mindanao in the southern Philippines for combat training. No, says Nyupeno, he has never heard of Suryadi Mas'ud, currently imprisoned for involvement in several bombings in the south Sulawesi city of Makassar in December 2002. Suryadi told police he spent...
...where men on the ground can frequently outwit spies in the sky. The U.S. has apparently been close several times to killing the notorious warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, wanted for sponsoring attacks on foreign troops and their Afghan allies. But last week he sent a gloating videotape to a news station in the Pakistani border city of Peshawar, jauntily recounting the near misses by U.S. troops tracking him. On one occasion, he says, he survived by climbing up a mountain 180 meters from where U.S. soldiers were searching a house. "We were in a neighboring house and could hear the voices...