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...Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a country the size of Western Europe, is a leader in the production of conflict, diamonds, and conflict diamonds. Some observers have compared it to the Wild West. This land is saturated with natural resources, including diamonds, and the mines win DRC its share of shady characters. Rebel soldiers and al Qaeda operatives have been spotted around the mines, as well as armies from six African nations, helpfully occupying resource-rich territory. Planes take off from mines regularly on flights paths that are not even covered by radar. Needless to say, no one checks...
Bergman and Martire also entered the doubles competition as a wild-card entry but lost to teams from Kentucky and Illinois in eight-game pro sets, both times by an 8-3 final...
...Indonesia is now in the position of telling Thailand the dangers of overlooking warnings. Alleged Bali bombmaker Amrozi, known as Rozi in his hometown, was the local wild boy, riding a motorcycle and dropping out of high school. After spending about six years in Malaysia, he returned a changed man, dressed in the close-collared gamis and loose pants of an Islamic boarding school student, and started taking unexplained trips out of town. The Surabaya-based Jawa Post reports that Rozi did some boasting a few years ago, telling buddies he had been involved in the Christmas bombings in Jakarta...
...concertinaing their back legs under their bellies. Once saddled up we plodded off into the vast, silent emptiness in search of clues to outback history, startling kangaroos and emus accustomed to having the arid landscape to themselves. Was that faint track across a low, stony hill merely made by wild goats? No, over the rise was a roofless, drystone miners' hut, still surrounded by a litter of schnapps bottles as undisturbed as the day they were drained and dropped. We left them there, in their context, for others to rediscover...
...train depots. The railroad on which it runs is often subjected to the intense weather of the Australian outback. Flash floods and sand drifts would sometimes block the line for days. Once, a train was stranded in the middle of the outback for two weeks; the driver shot wild goats to feed the passengers. Even construction of the rest of the line?originally intended to link the South Australian capital of Adelaide to Darwin in the north?has been held up. Work on the southern section started in 1878, only to reach halfway across the continent at Alice Springs...