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...Bangladesh's increasing combustibility was made apparent on April 1 when the police and coast guard raided a boat in the southern port city of Chittagong, stumbling onto a treasure trove of illegal weapons: 2,090 submachine guns, 150 rocket launchers, 25,000 grenades and more than 1.1 million bullets. The authorities had to transport their catch in 10 trucks. With so much weaponry pouring into Bangladesh, the country's gangsters and Islamic terrorists are well equipped to cause mayhem. Since April, for example, local newspapers have claimed that a gang of Islamic terrorists headed by a man known...
...only two decades, China has gone from Olympic outcast, with just five golds in 1988, to a powerhouse, with 28 in the 2000 Games. China's athletic czars have promised that 2008, when Beijing is host, will bring the nation an unprecedented medal trove. To better its chances, China has poured money into lesser-known sports like shooting that offer a bounty of medals. "If we plan very carefully, we could surpass Russia by 2008," boasts Wei Hongquan, a publicity official with China's State General Administration of Sport...
...targets inside the U.S., minutely detailed analyses of the vulnerabilities to a terrorist attack of several of them and communications among some of the most wanted terrorists in the world. In their volume and specificity, the discs amounted to what a senior U.S. intelligence official calls an unprecedented "treasure trove" of information about al-Qaeda's determination to pull off more catastrophic acts on U.S. soil. The catalog of targets found on the discs is part of what led to a heightened security alert last week at financial institutions in New York City and Washington and induced the latest episode...
Even for obsessive historians who have vacuumed up every available fact and theory about 9/11, the report provides a trove of rich new details. The commission scoured 2.5 million documents, many of them classified, and interviewed more than 1,200 people, including Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton. The result is the most comprehensive history of 9/11 to date...
...daughter Peggy Reeves Sanday, "but was later able to confirm it was of meteoric origin." Sanday, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, grew up with stories about the crater but didn't visit it until 1999, when she learned tribal tales that were an anthropologist's treasure trove. Since then she has been back almost every year, collecting dozens of Aboriginal paintings and recording their stories. Her university's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology will mount an exhibition, "Track of the Rainbow Serpent," in October, and Sanday is currently finishing a book about the crater. Her late father...