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...travel guide sends students to destinations around the world—from Australia to Alaska, China to Costa Rica. There they pass through a whirlwind of hotels, restaurants and bars, recording everything from changes in hostel rates to hangouts for cute locals...
...business- or family-visit visas, but the number is expected to rise by 30% next year under the new rules. The first group planned to see the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, the Printemps department store, the Moulin Rouge cabaret, the Palace of Versailles and cruise the Seine in a whirlwind two-day Paris stop before heading to Switzerland by train...
...battling the French government over the head-scarf ban, officials from the main Islamic organizations in France were dispatched to Baghdad to attempt to contact the insurgents and negotiate a release. President Jacques Chirac launched an all-out diplomatic push too, sending Foreign Minister Michel Barnier on a whirlwind tour of Arab capitals. King Abdullah II of Jordan and the Qatar Foreign Minister called on the Iraqi Islamic Army - which is believed to have abducted and executed Italian journalist Enzo Baldoni last month after Italy failed to meet demands to pull its troops from Iraq - to free the hostages. Even...
...President Putin's stock response has been to blame the offensive on "international terrorism," a phrase that invokes al-Qaeda and sidesteps any acknowledgement that Russia may, in part, be reaping the whirlwind of what Putin has sown in Chechnya during his almost five years at the helm. Even in its most explicitly jihadist form, Chechen terrorism is a homegrown affair, although factions of the Chechen separatist movement have received financial and political support from Qaeda-aligned elements abroad - and a handful of Arab mujahedeen have long played a role in the Chechen insurgency. The Russian crackdown, which began late...
...Back at his desk Whittaker juggles phones and e-mails between checking online news bulletins and fielding text messages from a journalist chasing a terrorism lead in rural Indonesia. He's in the middle of his own whirlwind, the newsroom largely empty of journalists, who are off like honey bees, foraging and collecting. By 3 p.m. he's running again to make the next conference, which hears from each bureau chief via speakerphone, and decides that while the free trade story is firming, it needs more independent confirmation. But the paper is taking shape, and at the next conference...