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...subscription-based businesses, including AOL, Time Warner Cable and Time Inc. Bewkes, 50, who has led HBO to critical acclaim and rising profits, will add to his portfolio the Warner Bros. and New Line movie units, Warner Music, the WB network and the Turner cable networks such as TNT...
...maybe that should be "surprisingly relevant," for a series made almost two years ago. News was all set to run on tnt in January 2001 but was scuttled by new management after the merger that created AOL Time Warner (which owns TNT and TIME). This year Bravo bought all 13 episodes--at a deep discount. But despite being shot before 9/11, Ashleigh Banfield's dye job, Greta Van Susteren's eye job and Paula Zahn's "zipper" ad, News doesn't play like old news. Like E.R., whose frenzied pace it emulates, News nails the jargon and the adrenaline rush...
...bomb, i.e. one whose explosion is based on a nuclear reaction. A dirty bomb is a conventional explosive salted with radioactive isotopes in order to spew out that nuclear material and contaminate a wide area. The military usefulness of such devices have always been in dispute. In fact, the TNT in such a bomb may still be more dangerous than the nuclear material. Its destructive power would really depend on the size of the conventional bomb, and the volume and nature of the nuclear material...
...wearing a blissful smile, unperturbed by the terrible destruction that turned his two sturdy companions into shimmering billows of sand. Hussain gestures to a cratered, rocky slope beside an ochre cliff face where the pair of 1,700-year-old Buddhas were blasted away by several hundred kilos of TNT. "Our Hazara ancestors have always known that there's another Buddha," he says. "It's sleeping there, in the ground...
...been their practice during each of the previous truces since 1987. The Tigers have a well-oiled gunrunning network, which uses a fleet of 16 ships and is centered mainly in Cambodia and Thailand. In late February in Thailand's Ranong province, police seized a cache of explosives including tnt and C4 they believe was destined for Sri Lanka. "Acquisitions are still continuing," says one diplomat referring to intelligence reports. Adds Rohan Gunaratna of the Center for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland: "Looking at their procurement picture, by monitoring their...