You’ve gone to take the famous waters in the southwestern English city of Bath. And if there’s anything more relaxing than a hot swirling mineral soak, it’s following your wallowing with strong drink and hearty fare
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Avenging bin Laden: Taliban Unleash Spring Offensive in Afghanistan
Taliban fighters carried out a series of coordinated attacks across the embattled southern Afghan city of Kandahar Saturday — a campaign that Afghan President Hamid Karzai characterized as “revenge” for the death of Osama bin Laden. Insurgents first assaulted the provincial governor’s palace with rocket propelled grenades and small arms fire and then launched a series of strikes across the city on the headquarters of the Afghan National Police and the Transportation Police, on Police Sub-station One as well as various other Afghan National Security Force and International Security and Assistance Force buildings in both Kandahar city and in the Arghandab River Valley, ISAF reported.
Killing bin Laden: How the U.S. Finally Got Its Man
The four helicopters chuffed urgently through the Khyber Pass, racing over the lights of Peshawar and down toward the quiet city of Abbottabad and the prosperous neighborhood of Bilal Town. In the dark houses below slept doctors, lawyers, retired military officers — and perhaps Osama bin Laden, the world’s most wanted fugitive
In Mississippi: After the Killer Tornado, An Abiding Faith
The post office is gone.
Holy Enrollers: Why Boomers Are Going to Divinity School
In July, 64-year-old Patrice Fike sold her home in Coral Gables, Fla., and her Mercedes, stored most of her furniture and moved into a one-room studio where many of her meals are provided.
Ad Wars: Is High-Fructose Corn Syrup Really Good for You?
Shopping last week in her local New York City grocery store, Elise Mackin, 32, filled her cart with items she knows to be good for her family — whole grains, fruits and veggies — and shied away from products that contained less wholesome ingredients. “Trans fats are out,” she said, “and anything with high-fructose corn syrup.” The evils of trans fats are well known, but what’s wrong with high-fructose corn syrup?
Building On Rock, Not Sand: Riots in Liberty City, Florida
On May 17, 1980, all hell broke loose in Liberty City, Fla. A Tampa jury acquitted four white policemen in the beating death of a black insurance agent, and the heart of Miami’s black community burst into violence
Syria’s Assad: Making an Example of Dara’a
If human rights workers and journalists are ever allowed into the besieged southern Syrian city of Dara’a near the Jordanian border, what horrors will they find? Syrians always had good reason to avoid rebelling against their authoritarian regime, ignoring early calls to join the Arab Spring.
Nation: The Flick of Violence
A gang film called The Warriors attracts off-screen rumblesStaring from the poster, they looked like a nightmare of what might be, that terrifying day when the street gangs take over the city, any city.
Can John McEnroe’s Tennis Academy Lift U.S. Talent?
As the U.S.