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...ADEN, YEMEN A boat laden with explosives rammed the U.S.S. Cole, killing 17 sailors and wounding more than 30. Bin Laden, at his son's wedding, wrote an ode to his supporters who carried out the attack: "The pieces of the bodies of the infidels were flying like dust particles...
...professor. The latter's vision of a post-industrial America infatuated with "a headlong forward motion that was inherently catastrophic" nudges him toward madness. The math teacher is eventually revealed to be a terrorist "sleeper" gone awol, an ominous visitor from an unnamed part of the world filled with "dust, rage, starved zealous faces, languages he had trained himself not to think in anymore," a man once--and perhaps still--intent on disrupting what he calls "the American conspiracy." He probably seemed merely unsettling to Egan while she was writing the novel but now, in the wake of Sept...
Almost 80 years ago, T.S. Eliot described our present situation in his poem The Waste Land: "I will show you fear in a handful of dust." EILEEN K. MEAKIN Washington...
...numbers, he wept. "My business is in shambles. It's very demoralizing to be 48 years old and have a nine-year-old company that's so suddenly in crisis," he says. But he is resolute. "I see myself as having no other choice than to pick myself up, dust myself off and move forward...
...Taliban troops in the north with a pair of BLU-82 "daisy cutters"--15,000-lb., minivan-size killing machines carried one at a time in the belly of MC-130 cargo planes. When detonated three feet above the ground, the bomb's slurry of ammonium nitrate and aluminum dust wipes out everything within a half-mile radius. Those who are not killed often suffer ruptured lungs or broken eardrums...