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...KILLED. Shamil Basayev, 41, Chechen terrorist who masterminded numerous large-scale attacks on Russian civilians, including a siege of an elementary school in the town of Beslan that killed more than 330 people, most of them children, and an attack on a theater in Moscow in 2002, in which 172 people died; when a bomb in his car exploded in the republic of Ingushetia, bordering Chechnya. While Basayev's supporters said the explosion was accidental, Russian forces said they killed Basayev as part of a long-planned sting operation...
...coal plant that is not capture ready, they're really stupid," says Jonathan R. Gibbins, an energy expert at London's Imperial College. There is some movement toward a cleaner-coal future in Europe. Vattenfall is building a $63 million, 30-MW pilot plant in the east German town of Schwarze Pumpe that uses another, untested clean-coal technology: oxyfuel. The plant will burn coal with pure oxygen instead of air, mixed with CO2 to keep heat levels manageable. What's left is pure CO2. Some is recirculated to aid combustion; the rest is easily captured for sequestration...
...very reason Pancho Villa cherished it as a hideaway in the early 1900s, the West Texas town of Lajitas, a stretch of 25,000 desolate acres on the banks of the Rio Grande near the Mexican border, hardly seems the ideal spot for an idyll. But lay down a strip of asphalt long enough for a Lear to land, then build a rich dude's dude ranch loaded with Old West ambiance--and, voilą, Lajitas, the Ultimate Hideout, is born. The resort stands as a paean to cowboy culture, attracting wealthy city slickers and adventure seekers...
...imaginative collection of homegrown and hard-to-duplicate guest amenities that include custom-made leather cowboy boots and belts, spa treatments infused with extracts of the native agave plant, cattle drives, shooting contests, plates of rattlesnake cakes and wild-boar schnitzel, and overnight camping trips to a nearby ghost town. The West can be won for $215 to $825 a night. "To capture the attention of travelers, we have to offer a variety of indigenous amenities that create a unique experience at every turn," says Daniel Hostettler, managing director of the $80 million resort development. "That's the way forward...
...Lobsters, for example, feature tennis great Martina Navratilova and former U.S. Open finalist Todd Martin, though neither took the court on Sunday. Kournikova was in town as a featured player for the Sacramento Capitals...