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...Ironically, ending the U.S. presence is a point of consensus between Iraq's new political class and the insurgents who kept their promise to bloody the poll with a steady stream of attacks in the months preceding it, and which killed at least 41 people on election day despite the elaborate security procedures in place. Still, the death toll would almost certainly have been considerably higher had not banning all vehicles from the roads prevented car bombings. But the insurgents are almost certain to redouble their efforts in the coming weeks, as if to show that the election hasn...
...club five or six hours later. "We definitely drink more" in Britain, he says. "It's just the culture to get pissed, I guess." Outside, two young men square off drunkenly but stop when a police van glides by. Between midnight and 4 a.m., casualties stream into the Queen's Medical Center emergency department: a motionless clubber on a stretcher whom the Kevlar-clad ambulance crew wheels straight to a treatment room; a youth whose injuries - a lacerated hand and a bite on his arm - were sustained in a brawl outside a pub; and a tipsy woman in high-heeled...
Every day, a stream of haggard customers would show up at Mark Dodson's drugstore in Altus, Okla. (pop. 23,000), just north of the Texas border. And every day Dodson would find dozens of empty cold-medicine boxes--the pills shoplifted--stuffed behind other products on the shelves or abandoned in grocery carts. Sometimes the 38-year-old pharmacist suspected that a buyer was using sniffle pills to manufacture methamphetamine, a dangerous drug, and he refused a sale. But usually, he says, "I had to give people the benefit of the doubt...
...that sweeps across equatorial waters at intervals of 30 to 60 days. Under its influence, says climatologist Wayne Higgins of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the atmosphere at mid-latitudes can undergo dramatic rearrangement. The result: a classic configuration called the Pineapple Express, in which the jet stream steers powerful cyclonic systems over warm waters near Hawaii, where they tank up with moisture before slamming into the West Coast. That is what happened around the first of the year, when back-to-back storms swept through California, Nevada, Colorado, Arizona and Utah and then went on to savage...
...There was a surge at the outset in the first few days and a steady stream of contributions since then,” Power added...