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...conditions that led to the fatal blunder. On July 7, two weeks prior to the shooting, four suicide bombers killed 52 people on three Tube trains and a bus. Two weeks later, on July 21, four more men outfitted with explosives failed to detonate themselves on London's transit system. An internal memo leaked on Sunday from Sir Ian Blair, chief of London's Metropolitan Police Service, seems to shift potential blame from the police force to the unprecedented security fears. "We confidently believed that our systems of command, of surveillance and of firearms intervention were among the best...
Carmel, Ind., is driving in circles. Since 2001, the Indianapolis suburb has built 50 roundabouts, those circular alternatives to street intersections that have become a transit fixture in much of the rest of the world. Because roundabouts force cars to travel through a crossroads in a slower but more free-flowing manner - unlike traffic circles, roundabouts have no stop signals - in seven years, Carmel has seen a 78% drop in accidents involving injuries, not to mention a savings of some 24,000 gal. of gas per year per roundabout because of less car idling. "As our population densities become more...
...authorities rejected his request to remain in the country, even after he claimed to have a heart attack in the departure lounge. Gadd then hopped a flight to Hong Kong, where officials once again denied him entry, sending him instead back to Thailand. After twenty hours in the Bangkok transit hall - and after 2,661 miles of air travel in Southeast Asia - he was finally forced on a Thai Airways flight to London...
...Days are filled with classes and lectures exploring the far corners of the otherworldly: Spoon Bending, Mask Making (in the past seven elections, the candidate with the best-selling Halloween mask has won), Past-Life Regression, Alien Abduction Case Histories. I missed the Astrology Roundtable, which explored how the transit of Pluto into Capricorn--occurring once every 248 years--affects me, the nation and the world...
...newer ways into Afghanistan - particularly via Turkey "where they suddenly vanish," says the counter-terror official, who was recently involved in busting an Afghan-supporting finance network spanning France, the Netherlands, and Germany. Uzbekistan - whose radical groups also receive funding collected in Europe - may also be becoming a new transit point for Afghan-bound radicals. And with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf stepping down, "there's real concern the already wild and lawless border region will become a virtual Taliban-al Qaeda colony...