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...also bombed a power station, leaving most of the 1.3 million Palestinian residents without electricity. The flow of other goods into the territory had already been reduced to a trickle after Israel sealed the borders and drew its navy close to the shores. Throughout Tuesday night, low-flying jets emitted sonic booms, breaking windows, making residents cringe and babies wail...
...This is the fate of those who defend Saddam Hussein." ONLOOKER outside an Iraqi police station where the body of Khamis al-Obeidi, one of the former dictator's defense lawyers, was being held. Al-Obeidi, abducted and murdered last week, was the third member of the defense team killed since the trial began...
...throwback to the 1980s, when it was common practice to charge different prices for cash and credit, some gas stations are knocking a few cents off each gallon for customers willing to pay with paper, not plastic. That's because as the price of gas has soared, so has the amount of money that stations pay credit-card companies, which take about 2-3% of each sale charged. Since drivers are quick to defect to another station to save just a penny or two, owners are slow to raise prices to cover their increased costs--and at times even lose...
...destruction tape - still running, unexpressed, in everyone's head - turned toward calculation. Ten subway cars at rush hour - two hundred people in a car - another thousand trampled in the underground in rush-hour panic as the gas spreads through the station. As many dead as 9/11, with a WMD attack spreading a devastating, airborne fear? (See what would happen to the accused 9/11 plotters...
Rick Shannon senses that something is wrong when the retired record producers he has been hired to find keep turning up freshly murdered--one with a fork still sticking out of his back. Shannon is a weeknight DJ at a classic-rock station in Vicksburg, Miss., who runs a detective agency by day. The case that drives this Southern-fried page-turner revolves around a dying cotton dynasty, an OxyContin-popping former football star and tapes of a late-night blues session that have been missing for 50 years. Fitzhugh's dialogue is as cool as a pitcher of iced...