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...fusion of northern technique and southern hardware seems to be paying dividends. Somali pirates now demand, and often receive, hundreds of thousands of dollars in ransom, according to the Piracy Reporting Center's Choong. With that sort of money the pirates "can afford to buy themselves some pretty nice boats," says Choong, and hence extend the range of their seizures...
...Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder Santa's prototype, as he tracks the shape-shifting Byzantine bishop St. Nicholas across 17 centuries of Christendom. Born in Christian Myra (now Demre) in southern Turkey in 280 A.D., Nick was sainted for anonymous gift giving to needy folk, and nominated a guardian of seafarers. After his bones were removed by Italian raiders to the port of Bari in 1087, prisoners, prostitutes, pawnbrokers and others flocked to his patronage. Soon, every Christian city wanted a piece...
...nations beating up on weak ones--all in the service of someone's hunger for power or resources. "There's a point at which you find an interesting kind of nerve circuitry between optimism and hubris," says Warren Bennis, a professor of business administration at the University of Southern California and the author of three books on leadership. "It becomes an arrogance or conceit, an inability to live without power...
...Residents who are reluctant to help the U.S. identify insurgents are equally unwilling to cooperate with the U.S.-trained Iraqi forces, whom some xenophobic Fallujis consider foreigners. The cops are public-order battalions from Baghdad, and the Iraqi army units are made up almost exclusively of Shi'ites from southern Iraq. While locals still refer to U.S. troops as occupiers, some think the Iraqi troops are worse. "When Iraqi soldiers get inside the city, they start frightening the people by attacking them and shooting in the air," says Um Muhammed, 44, a housewife. "The Iraqi army wants revenge...
...October 21, 2005, Time.com posted a story about an incident in which U.S. soldiers burned the corpses of two Taliban fighters in southern Afghanistan. The story, based on the accounts of several sources at the scene, stated that Army Lieutenant Eric Nelson ordered the bodies to be burned and could face disciplinary action by the military. Since then, however, a source close to the investigation of the incident has told TIME that Lieutenant Nelson did not order the burnings, is not a focus of the investigation and is not among the military personnel who will be named in a report...