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...Bush's arrival was a stunning surprise to all but a small handful of top officials gathered in the huge hangar last night. The first whiff of something afoot rippled through the six invited journalists, as they watched a few colleagues - fresh from Waco - walk into the hangar through a back door. "It's Cheney," whispered one journalist, who recognized a White House photographer among them. "Not possible," was the quick answer from another...
...need to know a bogie from a driving wheel to feel the romantic tug of the age of steam-train travel. A day spent aboard England's Cathedrals Express, chuffing from London to spired cities like Salisbury, Canterbury or Bath and back, is a mighty whiff of postwar nostalgia-and a glimpse into the obsessive otherworld of the trainspotters, who track locomotives the way some folks watch birds...
...need to know a bogie from a driving wheel to feel the romantic tug of the age of steam-train travel. A day spent aboard England's Cathedrals Express, chuffing from London to spired cities like Salisbury, Canterbury or Bath and back, is a mighty whiff of postwar nostalgia - and a glimpse into the obsessive otherworld of the trainspotters, who track locomotives the way some folks watch birds. The service is run by the tiny Steam Dreams company with the aid of volunteers who maintain vintage locomotives like the 1945-built Bodmin. Its 1960s cars are wood-paneled, the seats...
...submerging himself in the capital's fetid canals. "I guess I'd grown used to the smell," he says. "But after Big's accident, I started smelling it again, and I had second thoughts about jumping into the water every day." Other residents are also taking a newly wary whiff of the centuries-old klong network, which had inspired 17th century European missionaries to dub Bangkok the "Venice of the East." The city's 10 million residents produce 2.4 million cubic meters of wastewater per day but just 500,000 cubic meters are subsequently treated. The rest is simply poured...
...hardly surprising that a whiff of desperation hung over the Administration as it tried to assign blame for the 48 harrowing hours of bombing in Baghdad. Some officials continued to insist that most of the insurgents were Saddam loyalists. Others said the sophistication of four nearly simultaneous attacks indicated the work of foreign fighters--Islamic radicals from outside Iraq, perhaps representing al-Qaeda or the related terrorist group Ansar al-Islam. Several Administration officials told TIME that Hizballah, the Lebanese Shi'ite militia, is becoming more active in Iraq. Pentagon officials leaked word that captured insurgents had claimed that Iraqi...