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...links to al-Qaeda, Hizballah and other terrorist groups. Operation Containment is a response to recent intelligence reports that next spring's Afghan poppy harvest, which was just planted, will be at least as big as this year's newsmaking haul and may match the record 3,656-metric-ton harvest of 2000. That year Afghan growers, backed by the Taliban, cornered as much as 80% of the world heroin market. Afghan warlords are once again the dominant players in the world market, and some, U.S. officials say, are closely allied with Jihadist fanatics determined to undermine the weak Kabul...
...technology compensates for a dwindling supply of qualified craftsmen. "It's an inescapable truth that machines can ultimately step in and do most jobs as well as, if not better than, humans," says Hetherington. There's no denying that for utter precision and consistency, nothing beats a 125-ton computer-driven swaging machine hammering down on a barrel 1,600 times a minute. What is unknown is whether knowledgeable collectors--seeking uniqueness, not consistency--will one day insist on "pre-machine" guns...
...ACQUITTED. FERNANDO NINO, 25, and MARK WALKER, 36, two American soldiers charged with negligent homicide in the June 13 road deaths of two 14-year-old South Korean schoolgirls crushed by a 45-ton armored vehicle under their command; by a U.S. military court at Camp Casey north of Seoul. South Koreans have demonstrated angrily outside the base, demanding that the soldiers be tried by the South Korean judicial system, and calling for the withdrawal of the 37,000 U.S. troops sta-tioned in the country. The Justice Ministry has described the acquittal as "regrettable," while two prominent political parties...
...took a ton of shots. The goalie made some big saves diving on the puck,” Botterill said...
...this season, coach James Jones has lined up a first-class schedule that may not translate into a ton of non-conference wins, but has won the Elis respect. It’s a long way from last year’s tilt at Lavietes, when it took an epic meltdown by Harvard to give the Elis life...