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...danger zones are also expanding. Attacks have been spreading beyond the Sunni triangle, the perilous swath stretching north and west from Baghdad that is the home turf of Saddam's supporters. Two weeks ago, the normally tranquil city of Kirkuk experienced a run of resistance fighters' nightly raids aimed at U.S. patrols and the local police who support them. U.S. and Iraqi officials fear that guerrillas from the triangle are trying to open a new front up north. Last week's violence in the Shi'ite stronghold of Baghdad's Sadr City, led by the rabble-rousing cleric Muqtada...
...book for Evidente, "To Ben. Without you, we are nothing." He makes so much money that he just bought a vacation house in Hawaii. And here at the semiannual sale, with women standing in line down an entire block to get into the store, he is a ponytailed, tranquil cult leader amid a rush of manicured hands hopefully holding boots up into the curtained storeroom in supplication...
...Hambali, al-Qaeda's top operative in Asia--allegedly masterminded a string of terrorist attacks, including last October's nightclub bombings in Bali and the bombing of the JW Marriott Hotel in Jakarta this month. Two weeks ago, Hambali moved into a one-bedroom apartment in Ayutthaya, Thailand, a tranquil, mainly Buddhist town one hour outside Bangkok. He may have hoped to lie low for a while--and, perhaps, plot his next lethal strike. Earlier this year Hambali's former boss, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed--once the No. 3 official in al-Qaeda and now in custody--told interrogators...
...begun - most of the reciprocal gestures of recent weeks were not scripted by the "roadmap," but were made to calm the situation and create conditions for its implementation. Most important among these steps was the "hudna" truce brokered among Palestinian organizations by Abbas, which made last month the most tranquil since the beginning of the armed intifada in September 2000. The "roadmap" requires, as Israel insisted, that Abbas disarm and dismantle the militant groups, but the Palestinian prime minister warned that he had neither the political support nor the security muscle to pursue that option. Instead, he hoped that...
...reasons that Asians in certain areas have an exceptional life expectancy [July 21]. I have observed that the Buddhist monks of Thailand's Forest Tradition, despite eating only one meager meal a day and sleeping only four to six hours a night, tend to live very long lives. The tranquillity of their minds promotes longevity. Naturally, eating more food requires the body to work harder to digest it, resulting in more wear and tear on the body's organs; similarly, a tranquil mind requires little energy. Genetics plays only an indirect role, for tranquil-minded, sparely eating parents tend...