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...Midwest: with the flow of the Mississippi at dangerous levels, and with rains sweeping fertilizer off drowned farms, the dead zone could grow even bigger. The Louisiana fishing industry, the second largest in the nation, is already hurting, with shrimp catches falling in the dead zone's wake. The U.S. is not alone in grappling with this aquatic byproduct. As modern, chemically intensive agricultural practices spread around the globe, so does hypoxia; a 2004 U.N. report documents nearly 150 dead zones globally. But none compare to the black hole in the Gulf of Mexico. "This year would be the largest...
Mark Laity, spokesman for the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), NATO's military arm in Afghanistan, concurs. "In the wake of the jailbreak we obviously have a different and more difficult security situation in Kandahar," he says. While ISAF officials are skeptical about reports of high numbers of Taliban forces fighting together, on June 18 Afghan National Army (ANA) and ISAF troops launched an offensive, assisted by helicopter gunships, to drive the Taliban from the villages. Later that day, the Afghan Ministry of Defense said that dozens of Taliban fighters - including foreign militants - had died in the confrontation...
Many of his more than 50 films depicted the rebirth of Italy in the wake of World War II, a theme that director Dino Risi explored with nuance, carefully balancing tragedy and humor. With his breakout film, 1962's Il Sorpasso, about the unlikely friendship between a law student and a gregarious con artist, Risi became one of Italy's most accomplished directors, earning two Oscar nominations for 1974's Profumo di Donna, the tale of a blind war veteran able to distinguish women by their perfume. It was remade in 1992 as Scent of a Woman, starring Al Pacino...
...learned a lot throughout my training day. Specifically, I learned to wake people for meals but not beverage service; that people try to have sex in the bathroom all the time, and it's your job to knock on the door and get them out for their own safety. Also, you can totally ask for the whole can of soda. Thanks to a few hours in a pool next to a plane hull, I now know how to ditch a plane too. People almost never survive a jumbo-jet water landing, but if you didn't put 55 swimsuited future...
...vehicle and frantically stabbing innocent bystanders. Seven people were killed in the incident, which followed a disquieting series of random stabbings in recent months in a nation where violent crime is comparatively rare. A Cabinet spokesman said the government would look into tightening restrictions on knives in the wake of the attack...