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...into the general population. That's still a potent tactic. On Feb. 9, a female suicide bomber killed 28 people, including 20 soldiers, at a screening point for IDPs. This kind of asymmetrical warfare--the LTTE was the global pioneer in the use of suicide bombers--allowed a few thousand fighters to hold their own for decades against the Sri Lankan army's 50,000 soldiers. So the most recent army offensive uses a new strategy. The military clears people from every stretch of territory it captures. Those displaced must either seek shelter deeper in Tiger territory or surrender...
...didn't come to work in thousand-dollar suits. He wore blue jeans and stayed up late and came to the crummy dives with us to eat." - Duane Woerth, former president of the Air Line Pilots Association, on Bloom's lack of pretense, Reuters...
...January to his village in neighboring Gansu province and tried to enforce celebrations through a system of collective responsibility. "Ten days before New Year, the police came and divided us into groups of 20 families and put one or two people in charge. They were given a few thousand yuan and told they were responsible, that they would be punished if there were no celebrations," he explains. "Later they came and arrested nine people who they said were ringleaders in the refusal campaign, even though they had nothing to do with...
...algorithm has been built up over the generations, and it is several thousand nights of code,” Uchiyama said...
...Fulton Collection in Seattle - probably the greatest collection of Stradivari and Guarneri violins in the world. Each Strad had its own voice, he says, although there also existed a "family resemblance" throughout the collection. "When I played these instruments I got the feeling that there were a thousand reasons why they were so great. There will never be one secret," he says...