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...That distressing reality was further underscored by the Bali attacks, which, while having much less of an effect than 9/11, removed any doubt about the nature of the war we were entering. The first Bali suicide bomber blew himself up in a nightclub filled with foreigners on vacation. A second suicide bomber outside the nightclub blew himself up in a van. The intent was to kill as many people as possible. It not only didn't matter to al-Qaeda that it was killing civilians, but it also didn't matter that many of the victims were Muslim Indonesians...
...country's October 2006 nuclear test and the international fallout. "One of my clients was looking at going ahead with a substantial investment in a mineral-processing project," Chia says. "Before he went in, he had an indication from financiers it was doable. But then the nuclear issue blew up, and it became impossible...
...Still, the city's vast working- and lower-middle-class population remains hooked. The average fan attending the match in mid-August would have paid not more than $0.25 for the outing. It ended in a 4-3 Mohun Bagan victory, as mistake followed mistake. When the final whistle blew, a bellow the sound of fighter jets echoed around the stadium...
...seemed until David Cameron on Oct. 3 capped an unexpectedly successful Tory party conference by delivering an hour-long speech that won over doubters in his own party and, Tories now dare to dream, blew any potential electoral contest wide open. "Everyone who came here feared a general election," says Iain Dale, an influential Conservative blogger and commentator. "Now they're relishing...
...know your space program is in trouble when you're not sure whether one of your rockets just blew up. Americans go swoony when they talk about the romantic early days of space exploration, but what we forget is that a lot of that period was less romance than pratfall. Our worst pie-in-the-face moment came on Dec. 6, 1957, the day we attempted to launch our first satellite...