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...Less than 110 kg of active ingredients could yield 10 kilotons of explosive power--a Hiroshima-size weapon. Even if the terrorists didn't get the recipe quite right, a 1-kiloton yield could still devastate a city. And forget the suitcase: a truck will do, or a container ship to float the bomb into an American port...
...ethnic Pashtun brothers from the southern part of its ravaged neighbor, who make up most of the Taliban, as a counterweight to its foes in the Northern Alliance. A vestigial Taliban may also give any potentially disaffected rank-and-file members some alternative to going down with the ship. As Secretary Powell put it last week, "You can't ethnically cleanse Afghanistan after this is over. You can't export them." All you can hope for, perhaps, is that Afghanistan has a good, enduring reason to halt its most threatening export...
...product sample in a day," he says, "take a picture of it and have it on my website that night. Two weeks later, it's in my inventory." That nimbleness separates his business from large competitors. Maintaining a 1.3 million piece inventory in Los Angeles, he can quickly ship a rush order for 100,000 Ts. And having a single, centralized operation--with production managers, machine operators and graphic designers in one place--means he can rapidly change his product line...
...years of war and four years of drought and crossed into neighboring Pakistan. Of the 22 million who remained in their benighted country, around 4 million depended on food donated by foreign charities. World Food Program executive director Catherine Bertini said last week that the WFP needs to ship around 52,000 tons of wheat a month into Afghanistan to feed the hungry. "If there are serious impediments," she warned, "then we could be looking at a humanitarian catastrophe." Bertini's apprehension was shared by six international aid agencies, who called for a pause in the bombing to allow food...
...Bonus available to some Army recruits who enlist and ship...