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...terrorist strikes. According to Singaporean police, Mukhlas employed his relatives. One of those arrested in January 2000 was Hashim bin Abbas, his brother-in-law. The team's plans were foiled when a group of Islamic radicals associated with Hambali botched a bank robbery in a Kuala Lumpur suburb. Two of them were killed, and one was captured. Astonished Malaysian police began piecing together the world of militant Islam. More raids and arrests followed, and these led police to the Sungei Tiram madrasah, which was shut down...
...Larson Camouflage, whose parent company in Tucson, Ariz., has spent decades building fake habitats for such clients as Disney World and the Bronx Zoo, developed the first "tree" tower in 1992. TeleFlage founder Nancy Tuggle got into the business after serving on a planning board in a San Diego suburb that nixed a proposed tower in someone's backyard. She directed PacBell to a nearby school and six years later is forming a coalition of camouflagers to help companies expand their networks by educating the public about alternative tower designs. "With concealment as an option, it doesn't seem...
...want a look at what's really ailing the Japanese economy, just drive over on any given weekend to the Ito-Yokado shopping center parking lot in Shinyurigaoka, a large suburb half an hour west of Tokyo. Actually, it doesn't matter where you go, since the same scene is played out at parking garages, train stations and construction sites all over the country. But on a typical weekend here in Shinyurigaoka, there are four guards at the intersection directing traffic. Another man is on hand to make sure you don't miss the turn that leads to the garage...
...AUSTRALIA: Southern front "I'm a wreck?nervous and shaky," one woman told the media after police wearing flak jackets and goggles raided her neighbors, a Muslim family living in the Perth suburb of Thornlie. Her jitters have been contagious in the uneasy weeks following the Bali attacks. First came the early November raids on houses around the country, part of an Australian Security Intelligence Organization push to uncover possible connections between Australians and Jemaah Islamiah. That was followed on Nov. 18 by the charging of one of the men raided, a west-Australian convert to Islam, with conspiring...
Kaczynski came to Harvard as a shy working-class 16-year-old boy from a Chicago suburb. What we most directly portray in the play is Kaczynski’s participation in the Murray experiment, a three-year personality experiment in which he was a paid subject. After writing extensive autobiographies and voluminous ruminations on many topics, subjects in their third year were interrogated, their ideas and beliefs challenged in (by most accounts) combative and hostile sessions called “dyad sessions.” Subjects then watched footage of their responses under pressure, and were asked to comment...