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...largest test Yuen's generation has faced. With no heavy machinery to pull out the bodies, emergency teams have had no choice but to scrabble through the rubble and dirt with shovels or their bare hands. Some have blisters and bloodstains on their palms from the rescue effort. Dr. Rahmat Fajar traveled from south Sumatra to administer to trauma victims, but so far no one has been pulled out alive from the landslide area. "We are still digging," he says. "But we have no hope. None at all." Just then, at nearly 9 p.m., a local walks...
...very good speaker," says Zaibi Raziq. "He gets the attention of a lot of people." In a region plagued by corruption and government inefficiency, Fazlullah's demand for rule of law - even Islamic law - struck a chord. "Many of his listeners were poor and illiterate," says Rahmat Ali Khan, a businessman from Matta who fled after his cousin, a police officer, was beheaded by Fazlullah's militants on Oct. 27. "They suffer under rich landlords who give them no rights. They think that if they follow [Fazlullah] they will be able to occupy their own lands, under Shari...
...that extra copy, should some disaster strike your machine. On the other hand, moving your media collection off your local drive will free up space, and possibly improve your PC's overall performance. A hard drive that's close to maxing out can really slow things down, notes Omid Rahmat, publisher of tomshardware.com, a how-to site for the more tech savvy user...
...Back in Jalalabad, the Taliban took us to the Sihat-i-Aama Hospital where 17 injured Khrum villagers were receiving treatment. Among them was three-year old Rahmat Bibi, her legs broken and her head bandaged, crying aloud while asking to be taken to her dead mother, one of the victims of the air strikes. One-year-old Jan Bibi and her three-year-old brother Gul Khan were lying in the same hospital bed, unaware that they had been orphaned. Doctors said they were short of drugs, which wasn't unusual in a country that has been...
...journalist cursed with a foggy memory should stay off the smog story, because he/she might forget today's government warning that TV stations could be gagged for reporting negatively on forest-fire smoke. Schools and airports may be closed and visibility reduced to 165 feet, but Information Minister Mohammed Rahmat has expressly forbidden the use of the word "haze" to describe the cloud. Malaysian scribes who turn to their Microsoft Word thesaurus for help will find the most apposite alternative for "haze" is one Minister Rahmat should recognize: befuddlement...