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...heaven. The property's cliffside view over the Pacific Ocean is worth millions, but the black Angus cattle that Niman and his wife Nicolette Hahn Niman raise keep their eyes on the ground, chewing contentedly on the pasture. Grass - and a trail of hay that Niman spreads from his truck periodically - is all the animals will eat during the nearly three years they'll spend on the ranch. That all-natural, noncorn diet - along with the intensive, individual care that the Nimans provide their animals - produces beef that many connoisseurs consider to be among the best in the world...
...wired-up trucks that blew up and killed scores of people would have had to pass through checkpoints to get into the capital. How could they have gone undetected when they were loaded with water tanks full of chemicals and projectiles? One likely reason: they were assembled in Baghdad itself. Another detail enhanced the inside-job theories: the parking lot across from the Foreign Ministry, where the largest blast occured, is off limits to trucks. But security has been so lax that, just the afternoon before the attack, ordinary vehicles were not being inspected for explosives. (See pictures...
...starts when I make the left out of the garage and stop at a traffic light. Three little boys crossing the street turn their heads toward me, mouths open. A sanitation-department guy leaning out of his truck admires from above while we wait for the light to turn. A few blocks north at another light, a construction worker motions at me to roll down the window. "How do you like it?" he asks. I tell him I'm not sure yet, since I've been in the car for approximately 3½ minutes. "Good luck," he says. I cross...
...least 59 people were killed by the truck bomb at the Foreign Ministry and nearly 200 injured. Another 28 were killed and 96 injured by a truck bomb near the Finance Ministry. Meanwhile, two consecutive roadside bombs injured 10 on Palestine Street, and a third roadside bomb injured three in a mostly Shi'ite area of western Baghdad. Mortars lobbed into central Baghdad injured four in a Sunni area and two in a mixed area. (See pictures of the U.S. troops' six years in Iraq...
...radio stations in the region are broadcasting anti-election threats, echoed in local mosques, about not going into town. And black turbans, the telltale accessory of the Taliban, roam freely in the suburbs, say locals. On his return to Kandahar over the weekend, Mohammed Amir, a 26-year-old truck driver, says he saw about 20 Taliban setting up a roadside bomb. "They were not scared," he says. "They were not even in a hurry...