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...terrorized capital to its knees and, eventually, overrunning the city and seizing power. "We control all the countryside," gloats Maoist political officer Ram Lohani Chaudhray. "The government and most of the army hide in Kathmandu. But we have many fighters there. We have them holed up and we will wipe them...
...there are reasons for that," says Mantion. Everywhere, there is a tendency to treat heat-wave deaths as inevitable, a sad by-product of summer or global warming or aging. But the disparate death tolls remind us that heat waves, like earthquakes and cold snaps, do not have to wipe out populations the size of small towns. They only do so when the existing infrastructure is already inadequate. The majority of this summer's victims were found dead in homes they occupied alone - or were brought to emergency rooms too dehydrated and weak to be saved. The August vacation period...
...only game in town," said Delaware Democrat Joseph Biden. But the reverse holds as well: if security and stability are not restored quickly, the insurgents may find more allies within the rest of the Iraqi population. There's a race under way, to wipe out the resistance and get the country moving before the frustration boils over. And the U.S. military has only a limited amount of time to prevail...
Abundant supplies of crude oil worldwide are no bargain either. Americans are paying inflated prices for gasoline and other petroleum products. The bloated bills will more than wipe out the savings from this year's multibillion-dollar tax cut. For all this, you can thank more than three decades of bungled energy policies by a succession of Congresses and Presidents. Get ready for more bungling...
...calling them "the most dangerous part of the international terrorist network." But Shchekochikhin had a different analysis. "All Putin's talk of international terrorism in Chechnya is wildly off the mark," he said last May. The crisis is not about terrorism, but about "the bloody melee that threatens to wipe out the Chechen people first - and Russia second...