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...world has gotten much smaller. Country of origin is no longer the immutable trait it once was. The suspects arrested so far in the unsuccessful July 21, 2005, transit bombings in London were all from Africa. But the men charged with the devastating July 7, 2005, bombings were U.K. nationals who allegedly began plotting after a trip to Pakistan...
...limo, two journeys. politics throws up all sorts of questions: about competing needs and interests, about motives and results, even about the sanity of its practitioners. But Tony Blair's handover of the British premiership to Gordon Brown, a transition long anticipated and heavily choreographed, unexpectedly raised the one kind of question that never finds its way onto a parliamentary order paper: a metaphysical poser. How can power - granted by voters, defined by laws, enjoyed and exercised for 10 years - slip away so easily, almost as if it had never existed? The question hovered above a grizzled Prime Minister Blair...
...Colombia, Bolivia and Peru - home to the world's entire crop of coca leaves, from which the white powder of cocaine is refined. And Europe's sophisticated airport security systems and coastal patrols have made it tough to ship massive volumes of cocaine undetected. That means the cartels need transit points where they can store the huge amounts of the drug that they have moved across the Atlantic. It can then be divided among hundreds of smugglers who can individually sneak it into Europe - and who are desperate enough to take the risk...
...Cost-Benefit Analysis "Nation building" showed that the U.S. faces some high bills for upgrading infrastructure for mass transit, dams, railways, water, airports and roads [May 28]. Instead of focusing on its own needs, the U.S. thought it wise to increase its deficit in order to destroy the infrastructure of another country. One wonders how the real dangers from failing infrastructure compare with those imagined from Saddam Hussein. Are not the expected benefits from improved effectiveness preferable to the results of the endless wasting of money and lives? Yannis Athanassopoulos, ATHENS...
...University community and Allston residents and visitors, particularly at Barry’s Corner, with a mix of arts and culture, retail, athletics, and inviting open space. Innovative and environmentally sensitive transportation planning will make it easier to get to Allston and will favor walkers, cyclists, and mass transit over cars...