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...Russia was marked by tragedy. As I left my home in Los Angeles, I got word that two Russian planes had exploded simultaneously on their way to Black Sea resorts. Chechen terrorists were the likely suspects. Six days later, a car bomb destroyed the entrance to a Moscow subway station—on the same line I had taken the day before. The day I arrived in St. Petersburg, a band of terrorists took over a middle school in Beslan, a small southern town. And by the time I left the country, 360 children, parents and teachers were dead, many...
...Sitting in the food court on the top floor of the Mega Mall, the latest shopping emporium to open in Gurgaon, with Domino's Pizza and Subway close at hand, it's easy to imagine you're in a city like New York or Sydney. Yet India's mall boom is premature for the country's level of economic development, says Bakshi, "Incomes in India have grown, no doubt, but we need to grow much faster?at 10% for five or six years, like China?before we can support all these malls." For shop owner Varadharajan, that much economic growth...
WHAT DO PEOPLE TALK TO YOU ABOUT ON THE SUBWAY? Only one time in three years has somebody yelled at me on the subway. As I got off and the doors were closing, this guy yelled, "Fix the Knicks...
ARRESTED. U.S. citizen JAMES EL SHAFAY, 19, and Pakistani national SHAHAWAR MATIN SIRAJ, 21; in an alleged plot to bomb a subway station and possibly other locations; in New York City. The men were not believed to be linked to al-Qaeda...
...fighter in the region of $400, a princely sum in a pauperized population.) And for many, particularly the "black widows" who have seen fathers, brothers and husbands killed by the Russian security forces, revenge is as powerful a motive as money - the suicide bombers of both airliners and the subway station are believed to be Chechen women who had lost loved ones in the war. But the cycle of violence spirals downwards, as increasingly savage terror bring new crackdowns from the authorities and further dim the prospects for a political solution...