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...Bash For The Big Bang It was a long time coming. Skies across the Continent filled with fireworks in the early hours of Saturday to mark the European Union's enlargement from 15 to 25 member states. Ireland - Europe's westernmost country and current holder of the E.U.'s rotating presidency - played host to European leaders to celebrate the Union's historic inclusion of 10 new members from the East. In Brussels on Sunday, ambassadors planned to hold a friendly football match, each wearing T shirts with the same magic number: 25. Appreciation of the day's significance was most...
This will be the final battle." so predicts a civilian member of the Acehnese negotiating team that tried for months to reach an agreement that would prevent all-out warfare in Indonesia's westernmost province. He doesn't want his name published because he fears reprisals against his family, particularly because he believes that there is virtually no chance the two sides?the Indonesian military and the separatist guerrillas of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM)?can reach a compromise to prevent renewed fighting. Indonesian troops are already flooding into Aceh. Ultimately, some 50,000 are expected in the province, poised...
...bits that fell from the ship. Shuttle tiles carry serial numbers that correspond to a particular part on the spacecraft's underside. The pieces on the ground thus form a sort of bread-crumb trail leading back to the area on the spacecraft where the problems began. Find the westernmost part, and you have pinpointed the trouble spot. "That would be very, very significant," says Dittemore...
...this wasn’t any ordinary line. It snaked from the entrance of Cameron (which is across the street from the westernmost residential dorms on Duke’s West Campus) around some other athletic buildings, doubled back on itself, and ended up running along the outdoor tennis court complex...
Chen Jinchang lives with two women, three coffins and the certainty that one day the Yangtze River will flood his simple mud-walled house. But to a barge-towman who spent most of his years in the westernmost of the Three Gorges in central China, straining against ships' ropes of braided bamboo, this looming disaster is relative. "I used to pull boats through there 25 times a month," says the 73-year-old, pointing from his doorway to Qutang Gorge, where the Yangtze rushes between towering limestone cliffs...