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...grandchildren had been staying. "It looks like Verdun in 1916," she says. "The devastation is terrifying." Five dead tourists, 19 wounded firefighters, 30,000 hectares destroyed - spurred by unusually high winds, the worst fires in more than a decade in the desiccated south of France have taken an awful toll. In northeastern Portugal, a blaze of some 7,000 hectares claimed two victims as well, and new wildfires were under way at the end of last week in the southern tourist region of the Algarve. In both countries, the fires have left in their wake a sense of angry bafflement...
...begins with the fact that Germans, like most northern Europeans, are getting older and drinking less beer. "The average has dropped from 140 liters per person in the early 1990s to 120 now," says Sailer. "I figure it will hit 100 in the next 10 years." This takes its toll on the brewers. The German Federation of Brewers says the number of mid-sized breweries - those generating between 500,000 and 100 million liters per year - has shrunk from 610 in 1995 to 466 today, mostly through closure. Analysts see the next decade being dominated by even more mergers, closures...
...hijacking of an Air France flight by Iraqi Islamic Fundamentalists attempt to piece together the gruesome details. As the U.S.’s sordid role in the affair is uncovered, protagonists Lowell and Samantha work to bring their information to light and struggle with the emotional toll of digging into their pasts. Hospital reads from Due Preparations for a Plague on Tuesday, August 5 at 7:00 p.m. Wordsworth Books...
...further delay has become untenable, in the face of the mounting civilian death toll and the burgeoning humanitarian crisis. The undisciplined young fighters wildly trading fire on the capital's streets may have rendered the peacekeeping mission far more difficult. It's one thing putting troops in between two armies that have agreed on a cease-fire; quite another when their job is to fight their way in and impose a truce on both - and to do so as the city's food and drinking water supplies dwindle and cholera becomes a real threat. The most immediate cause cited...
...combat death toll in Iraq this year, as of July...