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Outside, toward evening, the fighting has stopped, and the gunmen gather to swap war stories. One slightly injured fighter stands in the back alley that leads to al-Sadr's Najaf headquarters. "A mortar round burst right by us, but no one was seriously injured, thanks be to God," he says. As he speaks, a crowd carrying a coffin draped in an Iraqi flag marches past the shrine. The first "martyr" of the day is being buried...
...INDICATORS A Problem Shared? The French government reportedly agreed to a deal with the E.U. over the bailout of crippled engineering firm Alstom. The proposed debt-for-equity swap would leave Paris with a 31.5% stake in the firm...
...lineup lately. The segment began with a syrupy clip reel about ABC's returning reality shows, making the case that The Bachelor and Extreme Makeover were a benevolent entity, like UNICEF: "They make you laugh, make you cry, and make a difference." Joining the schedule next year is "Wife Swap," in which mothers from two different households change homes for a week to live with each others' families. Scenes from the pilot, in which a crunchy vegetarian from California swapped with a neat freak from New Jersey, got a lot of laughs. Still, you have to be anxious about...
...creating a widely distributed Japanese-language file-sharing program similar to Kazaa; in Kyoto. An outspoken opponent of Japan's Draconian copyright laws, Kaneko is the first creator of peer-to-peer programs arrested there. He is charged with writing Winny, an application that allowed computer users to anonymously swap content, such as movies and video games...
...every item swiped from a plane, there's an eager collector waiting to bid for it. Each day on eBay, travel memorabilia swap hands?from TWA napkins of the 1970s to a large array of Concorde crockery and pepper pots. Judging by the amount of stuff available from the retired supersonic service, it's a wonder that British Airways didn't terminate it sooner due to a lack of cups and plates...