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ESCAPED. JAMAL AL-BADAWI, 36, al-Qaeda operative sentenced to death for masterminding the 2000 bombing of the U.S.S. Cole, which killed 17 sailors; from a Yemeni prison, along with 22 other convicts; through a 460-ft. tunnel officials said was dug by inmates as well as conspirators outside the prison; in Sana'a. The carefully planned escape raised questions about whether al-Badawi, who broke out of another Yemeni jail in 2003 and was recaptured 11 months later, had assistance from Yemeni officials...
...crowd of 150 yesterday at Harvard Law School in which he lambasted the criminal justice systems in the U.S., Canada, and Jamaica for what he claimed was a high incidence of wrongful convictions and a system that is based more often on prejudice and “tunnel vision” than on evidence...
...also killed JULY 1987 Clashes between Saudi security forces and Iranian protesters leave 402 dead JULY 1989 5 Pakistanis die in a fire at a camp, and 1 is killed when bombs explode near the Grand Mosque JULY 1990 1,426 pilgrims are crushed or asphyxiated in a tunnel at Mina MAY 1994 270 pilgrims die in a stampede at the "stoning of the devil" APRIL 1997 A fire caused by a gas heater at a Mina camp kills 343 APRIL 1998 A stampede during the stoning ritual - 118 dead Further deadly crushes en route to the stoning: MARCH...
...being unworthy?the circuit starts to resemble the classic fight-or-flight response. In the perform-or-perish version, anxious thoughts trigger the release of adrenaline, the hormone that sets the heart racing, primes the muscles to run and puts all the senses on alert. The eyes slip into tunnel vision?the last thing a quarter-back needs when he's relying on peripheral perception to spot a waiting receiver...
...accident in San Bartolo, Gautemala, dates back to 100 BC, tests revealed. Saturno first stumbled over the site while on a field expedition for the Peabody’s Corpus of Mayan Hieroglyphic Inscriptions in 2001. At the San Bartolo site in the northeastern Peten region of Guatemala, several tunnels and trenches, originally dug by looters, run under a larger pyramid. Saturno was seeking shade in one such tunnel when his flashlight revealed the corner of a wall painting. “In Western terms, it’s like knowing only modern art and then stumbling on a Michelangelo...