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Bugarach: The French City That Will Survive the Apocalypse?
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People Power: The Philippines
Try not to forget what you saw last week. You say now that it would be impossible to forget: Filipinos armed to the teeth with rosaries and flowers, / massing in front of tanks, and the tanks stopping, and some of the soldiers who were the enemy embracing the people and their flowers.
HEROES: Lindbergh
Height: 6 ft. 2 inches.
BASE Jumping
In 1783, Louis-Sbastian Lenormand climbed to the top of an observatory tower in Montpellier, France, leaned over the edge, and jumped. An astonished crowd watched as he fell to the ground with the aid of a new contraption called the parachute and landed unhurt.
UNITED NATIONS: The Bogey of Colonialism
A group of Arab nationalists has confronted the U.N.
What They’re Saying About the War
France: In Search of Bin Laden’s Urologist Osama Bin Laden may be in less danger from smart bombs than from kidney stones, according to a report in the French daily Le Figaro.
A Past Flight May Offer Clues to Air France 447
We’ll never know what it was like to be aboard Air France Flight 447 as it plunged into the Atlantic Ocean on May 31, apparently killing all 228 aboard. For now, the closest we may get is listening to the passengers on a similar Airbus 330 jet whose flight computer put it into an uncommanded dive over northwestern Australia last October
Jordan’s King Abdullah II, with Eyes on Egypt, Boots Prime Minister
Know what’s contagious?
France draw Ireland in World Cup playoffs
Former champions France have been handed a tough task against Ireland in the European playoffs to qualify for next year’s World Cup finals in South Africa.
Barclays to spin off 6.3B assets
Barclays is planning to spin off a 4bn ($6.3) portfolio of complex credit assets as the bank presses ahead with a process to clean up its balance sheet and ease shareholder concerns over its investments.