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...Terrorists in Turkey The Notebook item about terrorist groups using Turkey as a base for operations [Dec. 8] mistakenly referred to the Turkish province of Bingol as bordering Iraq. It does...
...Parisians have always been ferociously protective of their skyline. In 1887, writers Alexandre Dumas fils and Guy de Maupassant were among the artists to protest the construction of "a gigantic black factory chimney" now known as the Eiffel Tower. After losing that battle, Maupassant favored the restaurant at the base - it was the only place where the tower didn't mar his view. Parisians eventually grew to love that monument, but they've never accepted many of the tall buildings that went up in the 1970s. Even after 30 years, the tower of Maine-Montparnasse, a 209-m monstrosity jutting...
...patio - but worried the cords won't reach? Fear not. At November's Comdex convention in Las Vegas , Shanghai Visart Technologies, a Chinese firm, unveiled a 17-in. LCD monitor ($900) that doesn't need any wires. The screen can be carried anywhere within about 30 m of the base station, which transmits a cable-TV or DVD signal using the same frequency spectrum as cordless phones and wi-fi. A rechargeable lithium battery that lasts four to six hours cuts the TV loose from electrical wires as well. The portable tube will be available worldwide by early...
...country's tax system, which suffers from loopholes and evasion. This year, the government plans to introduce a single, uniform value-added tax to replace India's jumble of state and local sales taxes; economists expect the new tax regime will widen the government's revenue base and make life easier for India's businessmen...
...that Ben's unit deployed from its German base to Iraq, Jill left Germany too, moving in with her father and stepmother in Aurora, Mo. She plans to remain there but will spend time also in Washington State with Ben's extended family, whom she's counting on "to help keep his memory alive for his children." When Ben was born in February 1973, his parents, following a family tradition, planted a tree, a lace-leaf maple, in their yard in Kent. A black ribbon now hangs on the tree, next to the yellow one the Colgans had attached earlier...