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Mike White: I just wanted to go somewhere that kind of embodied a popular culture wasteland, and it seemed like as good a place as any in my experience. [laughter] It seemed like it would...
...first couple of days, Mike did not come home at all. Like firemen across the city and country, he worked 24-hour shifts, much of it on the pile, the putrid 16-acre wasteland where the laws of time and space simply do not abide. "We'd be working in one place for a bit, and they'd blow the horn and tell us to run because another building might collapse on us, and then they'd bring us back to the same place two hours later," he recalls. "You'd be doing your work, and then...
...Qaeda, the rugged, war-torn wasteland of Afghanistan was a kind of paradise. Under the benevolent tolerance of the Taliban, the bosses of international terrorism found just the kind of sanctuary they needed to recruit, train and plot their deadly attacks. But by last week any members of al-Qaeda who had escaped U.S. daisy-cutter bombs and Afghan bounty hunters were on the lam and in desperate search for a new base. Besides such fugitives, there are an unknown number of operatives safely lodged in secret cells scattered from the hinterlands of Yemen to the jungles of the Philippines...
...exactly going to be a post-apocalyptic wasteland out there on the roads and in the airports and terminals. Plenty of people shaken up by the disasters of the past few months are more eager to be with their friends and family than ever, and new world or not, the busiest holiday season of the year will still be pretty busy - the AAA's 34.6 million guesstimate would be a 6 percent decline from last year. Bad but not disastrous...
...charred skeleton open to the sky. One side wall, chipped and broken, serves as a firing line targeting Taliban positions 600 m away. As the sun sets behind the western mountains, we watch the enemy moving behind their lines. Between us lies a wasteland of smashed masonry, burned-out vehicles and many, many unseen mines. "For now we stay in our positions and they in theirs," says Allah Mahmad...