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...there a greater social purpose behind the recent flash mob craze than releasing steam in these stressful post-Sept. 11 days? In a typical flash mob, scores of individuals convene with the help of instant messages and cell phones to await the often-zany instructions of their unknown leader. A San Francisco flash mob, for instance, was told to play a giant game of duck-duck-goose, and a Harvard Square flash mob flocked to the Harvard Coop this summer to ask for greeting cards for a friend named “Bill.” Since the first flash...
...Police say the Hanifs and Ansari have confessed. In custody, says Maria, Hanif and Ansari have admitted that they belong to the Gujarat Muslim Revenge Force, a previously unknown group dedicated to avenging last year's massacres of Muslims by Hindu mobs in the western state of Gujarat. In addition to the most recent blasts, police say the Hanifs and Ansari have also been charged with?and confessed to?planting a bomb on a bus in the Bombay suburb of Ghatkopar on July 28, which killed three and injured 42, and to planting another bus bomb that failed to explode...
...called, not surprisingly, Café Costes. "We realized that all the existing cafés were a bit banal, and that if you put together good design, good marketing, a good location and some hard work, you would have a 'cocktail explosif,'" says Jean-Louis. The detonator was an unknown designer named Philippe Starck, who modeled the interior after the railroad station in Budapest. Kaboom! Before long, Starck was a star and Café Costes was taking in five times as much money as it had before his makeover. The brothers have been cloning versions of Café Costes ever...
...somebody with the right papers could have made it through the guards," says Jabbar. Brigadier Munem Abdul Khalek, a senior officer at the scene, said it was too early to say how the explosion was triggered, but ruled out a suicide bombing. The full extent of the damage is unknown; U.S. soldiers barred journalists from the site. The main road leading to the compound was blocked by Hummers and APCs. Two Blackhawk helicopters circled the site overhead. A few ambulances were allowed into the area immediately after the blast, but when a fleet of 10 ambulances arrived an hour later...
...Though largely unknown outside of the region, this was one of the first great achievements in marine exploration: centuries before anybody else engaged in regular long-distance voyages, mariners from the Malay Archipelago ruled the Indian Ocean. The Roman historian Pliny wrote in the first century A.D. about sailors arriving in Africa from the eastern sea on rafts, propelled not by sails but by "the spirit of man and human courage," carrying cinnamon and other spices...