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...room. Liang Congjie, top environmental adviser to the Beijing Olympic bidders, shares those concerns. "My greatest worry is that the committee will focus on making Beijing into a showcase city with water-wasting stretches of grass," he says. Other fears are that work on improving wastewater treatment and mass transit will slow as the city shifts its construction funds to building competition venues. Beijing has seven years to prove otherwise...
...West Africa's skies. An air pocket was nothing. An engine falling off - that would be something to worry about. A few minutes later the plane had landed safely and the passengers, most of them bound for Freetown in neighboring Sierra Leone, were ushered into the airport's basic transit lounge...
...simply have to go in and supervise the implementation of that agreement. But if the fighting continues, presumably they'd have to move to a Plan B - a more robust engagement. NATO has a stake in Macedonia's security. The airport in Skopje is still the main supply and transit route for troops bound for the KFOR peacekeeping mission in Kosovo, and Macedonia remains an important logistical center of that mission. So although they haven't made it public, NATO is already planning a response if the security situation in Macedonia collapses altogether...
...likes what he has seen of Germany. "I have a feeling that living in Europe is better than conditions in the U.S.," he says. "I like the way of life here." He says he is especially attracted to the combination of hip nightlife, varied restaraunts and ease of mass transit...
...McVeigh was born near Buffalo, New York, and served in the army during the Gulf War. But sometime during his troubled transit from quiet boy to disturbed man, he developed a deep and irrational hatred of the federal government he once served. In his letters from prison that were recently published in the Buffalo News, he said he saw himself as a soldier in a war against the government...