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...told a press conference that the pair planned their attack for a month. He said that on early Monday morning the two suspects stole a large Dongfeng delivery truck. Shortly after 8 a.m. Beijing time (or 6 a.m., in the unofficial local time) one of the suspects telephoned the other to say that a group of Chinese border police was on a training jog outside their compound. The driver accelerated the truck to a high speed and plowed it into a group of 70 from behind. The truck hit a pole and turned over, and the driver lost...
Accounts of the attack were still conflicting on Monday afternoon, but according to official Chinese media reports, two unidentified men drove vehicles - one of which may have been a dump truck - into a squad of border police conducting morning exercises. After explosions that may have been caused by grenades or bombs attached to the vehicles, the two men reportedly started attacking the surviving soldiers with knives before being subdued and arrested. Authorities said the number of dead and wounded was still being confirmed...
STERLING OWEN, police chief of Knoxville, Tenn., on the motives of Jim D. Adkisson, an out-of-work truck driver who gunned down two people at a Unitarian church known for its liberal views...
...Today's target demographic was barely sentient when the show was in its mid-'90s prime. The kids want thrills, and I Want to Believe offers some good ones, though of an old-fashioned variety. The chases aren't Batmobile-vs.-Joker-truck, they either involve a snowplow or are on foot. And the shock scenes are closer to the murky threat of Val Lewton's '40s horror movies than to the slice-and-dice explicitness of the Saw and Hostel slasher series. Early on, a young woman takes a dip in a public pool, then gets out. Submerged...
Broadcasting live video used to require a huge satellite truck, thousands of dollars in equipment and several strong souls to lug around bulky machines. Then YouTube came along, and all you needed was a camera, a computer and a little bit of Web savvy. Now Web video has gotten even easier. With Qik.com, a free Web service launched in public test mode on July 21, all you need is a cell phone...