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Zacarias Moussaoui will live out the rest of his days surrounded by poured concrete, with a thin horizontal window providing his only view of the country he conspired to attack. He'll be in this cell at all times except for the 90 minutes he'll get five days a week to go outside into a caged courtyard to exercise on his own, with no contact with other inmates. This is life at ADX Florence, the maximum security prison in the high desert of southeastern Colorado where the convicted 9/11 conspirator will almost certainly begin his life sentence. (The Bureau...
...nations, which tend to side with Khartoum, could also make forming a mission troublesome. And Khartoum says it will refuse U.N. peacekeepers entry to Sudan. Beyond these irritants, there is the question of where troops would come from. Traditional suppliers of peacekeepers such as Jordan and Nigeria are stretched thin elsewhere...
Which is great if you're into satire, a genre that's easy to like but hard to love. It's thin, it's shallow, it dates easily, it rarely feels larger than the thing it's making fun of. A case in point would be Gary Shteyngart's first novel, The Russian Debutante's Handbook, a charming-enough outing about expatriates in Prague that has approximately one joke that gets steadily less funny over time. An exception would be Shteyngart's second book, Absurdistan (Random House; 352 pages), a satire that is profoundly funny, genuinely moving and wholly lovable...
...same day, the Black and White heavyweight crew fell to unranked Boston University, stretching the team’s losing streak to four races.At the lightweight showdown between No. 1 and No. 2, Radcliffe was favored to win, but the team’s advantage hung on a thin thread. That thread broke on Saturday.“We all agreed that we didn’t have our best race,” lightweight co-captain Sarah Bates said. “But we can’t deny they were faster than us; we just didn?...
...SCREEN SAVER The newest Mac laptop, the MacBook Pro, has a built-in camera for videoconferencing. For the less sure-handed, there's a motion sensor to protect your files if the machine gets bounced in transit. This sleek laptop is 2.5 cm thin and weighs about...