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...very hot - summer's night in Maputo's train station, and nobody's going anywhere. And that's just the way they want it. On a flatbed train car, under the latticed arches designed by Gustave Eiffel, Ghorwane, a local band that have been fusing African rhythms with politics since the early '80s, are shaking up a cocktail of sweaty fans. It's buzzing, but it's not full - not everybody in Mozambique's capital can afford the $6 door fee at Sr Mfumo Jazz Bar (formerly Chez Rangel). Most people still get by on just $40 a month...
...walked all the way to 50th St before going to Penn Station and catching the train home. I was so thankful to see my family again, but I found out my brother-in-law, Michael, who was a fireman in Midtown, had been somewhere in the south tower when it collapsed. Not even one tiny little piece of him was ever recovered. He left my sister and three kids, and that is what makes this so hard for me now. I worked in that building for seven years, and I spent more time there in those years than...
...Look, we have enemies," Karzai said. "The same enemies that blew up themselves in London, the same enemies that blew up the train in Madrid or the train in Bombay or the twin towers in America are still around. Before September 11 they were the government in Afghanistan. Today they are on the run and hiding and they come out from their hiding and try to hurt us when they can manage...
...little train that couldn't." DAVID RUDDUCK, American Red Cross spokesman, on tropical storm Ernesto, which hit Florida with weaker-than-expected force last week...
...that litigation against the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine has created an exodus of stem-cell researchers from California. In fact few if any have left, and dozens have moved to the state because of supportive state laws and stable funding opportunities. In addition, our institute recently established a training program at 16 state institutions that will train 169 young researchers, including predoctoral, postdoctoral and clinical fellows, many of whom have come from out of state or from overseas. ZACH W. HALL, PRESIDENT CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE FOR REGENERATIVE MEDICINE San Francisco...