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...August and September this year to discuss Bali, according to his confession to Indonesian police. The last time they met, "we had a chat after praying together at the Great Mosque in Solo," he said to police. Samudra told Amrozi he would send some cash. Amrozi bought the van and the chemicals used in the bombing and ferried them to Bali. When he, Samudra and a number of the other planners met at the resort island, Amrozi was reminded of his place in the pecking order. "At one point I asked them where I was supposed to take...
After the Bali bombings, the team dispersed. Patient police work soon led the authorities to Amrozi, who had used his own name to buy the van that carried the main bomb. Samudra, more experienced, managed to stay on the lam for five weeks, carefully limiting his cell-phone conversations to 20 seconds to foil police scanning. The latest technology, however, requires only a few seconds to trace a call, and on Nov. 21 police tracked down Samudra and nabbed two of his bodyguards. They said their boss planned to board a bus about to leave on a ferry to Pekanbaru...
...People are always concerned with change,” says Bob van Meter, chair of the Allston-Brighton Community Development Corporation (CDC), who helps run monthly meetings between Harvard officials and community members. “Residents want to ensure that growth allows the community to maintain its vitality, and at the same time, not to be overrun...
DIED. LYNDA VAN DEVANTER, 55, who wrote searingly of her time as a Vietnam nurse; of a vascular disease perhaps related to Agent Orange; in Herndon, Va. Her book, Home Before Morning, told of the horror of combat surgery--of drunk doctors, lost patients and the special loneliness of a female veteran of our most loathed...
...peer yet deeper into canine cognition. The geneticists too are sharpening their tools, looking to more powerful gene probes--eventually even the complete sequences of the dog genome. Dog lovers, meanwhile, don't much care how the transition happened--just as long as it did. --Reported by Deirdre van...