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...tragedy," Scotland Yard said in an apology late last week after London police pumped five bullets at point-blank range into a suspected terrorist who turned out to be innocent. The Brazilian had been wearing an unusually heavy coat for summer when plainclothes cops chased him onto a train and revealed previously secret "shoot to kill" guidelines for dealing with suicide bombers. The incident occurred the day after four bombs went off almost simultaneously on Underground trains and a bus in a chilling echo of the blasts that killed 56 people two weeks ago. But this time only the detonators...
...malaria could reveal whether the Lapita people unknowingly brought the illness with them, while details of their diet will help tackle one of the great puzzles of the Lapita story - did some stay long enough in Melanesia to set up gardens, or were they, as proponents of the "Express Train to Polynesia" theory believe, just passing through on their way east, eating whatever they could forage along the way? "The fact that they were burying people in a cemetery suggests they were here for the long haul," says Buckley. Archaeologists may be eager to determine where these first people came...
...14th, Japan surrendered. Hours after being discharged from the Navy, I was on a train heading home-a trip I had never expected to make alive. The last of my companions had gotten off, and now I was alone in the crowd, away from all my buddies who had eaten, slept, worked and studied with me for the past eight, exciting months. My life seemed completely futile and empty. Had the war lasted a little longer, my remains, prepared in advance-toenails and fingernails, and bits of hair-would have been sent to my family in a small, white wooden...
...Almost sixty years have passed since that day on the train. But I have come, finally, to a conviction that life has meaning and beauty beyond anything I had hoped to know. A witness to conflict, past and present, I believe that an honest review of Japan?s past would win her the respect of her neighbors. To acknowledge past mistakes is a sign of strength and emotional security, not weakness...
...weeks, my routine has been forced to change slightly due to circumstances beyond my control. Recent events in London have forced me to be less oblivious to the world around me. I am now more alert than I was, and a little less excited to get on a subway train. And the increased police presence is at the same time both comforting and unsettling because it serves as a reminder that the New York City subway could be a terrorist target. I have also given up my white headphones in favor of generic ones since iPod thefts are rising...