Word: trove
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...using a forged passport while committing a terrorist act, be sure to carry supporting documentation with the same name, and have a good cover story for why you have the passport. That diabolical tourist tip was among the terrorist how-tos contained in a trove of handwritten notes found earlier this month in a house in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, abandoned by Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network...
...life in a U.S. prison for plotting to blow up New York landmarks in 1993. Young Ahmed and his brother Mohammed, 29, still on the run, were sent to Afghanistan in 1988 as teen recruits in the Islamic holy war. Some U.S. officials think Ahmed could spill a trove of useful information, since he spent years at bin Laden's side. But so far, Ahmed has refused to cooperate with his captors, and U.S. officials say they have not yet had access to question...
...after reading additional Balzac works such as Old Go, as Pere Goriot was titled in Chinese, and EugEnie Grandet?along with forbidden translations of the Gallic staples Jean-Christophe, Madame Bovary, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Count of Monte Cristo, also stolen from the same Western treasure trove?the worldly education of the beautiful seamstress and real re-education of both young men are completed with an ironic, movie-twist happy ending...
...went to Harvard, works in Iowa and loves swing dancing. That's not the typical profile of an anticrime crusader, but Lawrence Farwell is an unusual guy. While developing technology that would allow the vocally paralyzed to speak, he stumbled across a trove of seemingly extraneous signals stored in the brain. He began looking for a way to put that information to use. Result: a new forensic technology he calls brain fingerprinting...
...sign of anyone but journalists and looters visiting the houses, hauling away the very treasures--hard drives, manuals, videotapes, lists of recruits--for which U.S. officials have been scouring the earth. If anything was left by the time U.S. agents got into the act, the government may have a trove of new clues with which to connect the al-Qaeda dots...