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...tape's narrator, according to authorities, is Hashim bin Abas, a 40-year-old Singaporean electrical repairman now under arrest. The video, along with notes and maps, was discovered by U.S. forces in the rubble of an al-Qaeda leader's house in Afghanistan in mid-December. Singapore police are now holding 13 men they say were part of a regional terrorist group trained and coordinated by al-Qaeda. The police claim the group was plotting to attack U.S. targets in Singapore, and two al-Qaeda operatives flew into Singapore in October to give advice on how to make...
...through lunch at roadside restaurant in central Jalalabad when we heard the first gunfire. The place was empty except for an elderly bearded man at a table nearby, and my driver and I were sharing Kabuli pulao (rice), Afghani tikka (barbeque meat) and Kandhari nan (bread) with a television repairman we'd picked up at Torkham. TV repair was a bad business to be in, Sardar Mohammed told me, because the Taliban had banned television. But he'd helped me negotiate two-way cab fare with Mohibullah, the driver. It was 12:30pm, a pleasant afternoon with soothing breeze...
...shock troops of the Cultural Revolution?and waved his arms like a conductor as the masses sang along with a revolutionary hymn that boomed from loudspeakers. The roar of support was deafening. "Seeing him was like a dream; I will treasure this night forever," said Xu Zhenyi, a bicycle repairman who clutched a special victory edition of the state newspaper, the People's Daily...
...after writing just six chapters of an "uncomplimentary view of complementary medicine." That unfinished text - cut off, spookily, almost in midthought - is rounded out by an anthology of Diamond's newspaper columns, which show off his first-class deadline wit. (A story about being forced by his Hassidic computer repairman to say the Shema is a classic of the columnists' form.) Even Diamond's accounts of life with cancer can be darkly funny as well as harrowing. But as with all such collections, those stories, written to be read on the Tube or at the lunch counter, can't quite...
Fortunately, provisions of the 1996 federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act had gone into effect not long before the transplant. The law required any company that employed Hunter to provide coverage in spite of his pre-existing condition. When Hunter signed on as a vending-machine repairman with Cromer Food Services, outside Anderson, S.C., full medical benefits came with the job--no questions asked...