No Biscuits For Baghdad ?

Things are really looking up...more good news from Iraq..
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060618/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

10 workers kidnapped from Baghdad bakery

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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen seized 10 workers from a bakery Sunday in a predominantly Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad, while a car bomb exploded near a university in the northern city of Mosul, killing a woman and wounding 19 other people, police said.

A small parked truck bomb exploded in southwestern Baghdad, killing three people inside the vehicle, police said. In Baqouba, north of Baghdad, gunmen killed three people, including one carrying an Iranian passport, police said.

The scattered attacks came after a day of unrelenting violence that killed more than two dozen people as insurgents foiled heightened security measures, dealing a blow to the Iraqi government's pledge to bring peace to the capital.

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to shower their American liberators with said candy.

.......^THE FUTURE

The encroachment shows no signs of diminishing. Scenic surroundings make for desirable real estate, uncertain oil supplies keep new coal-fired power plants coming and at least some tourists continue to demand conveniences in the wild.

National parks also are at the mercy of private ''inholders,'' owners of parcels within park boundaries who could develop their land because the park lacks money to buy it.

Likewise, parks face development on their fringes. A casino is proposed within cannon range of a historic Gettysburg battlefield. Several hundred new homes are approved for construction along the scenic New River Gorge National River in West Virginia.

Tom Kiernan, president of the National Parks Conservation Association, said parks often are viewed as narrators of the American story.

''The parks are beginning to tell another story as well: the story of funding shortfall, the story of very poor air quality, the story of declining health of the ecological and cultural resources of the park,'' he said.

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