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...found that she could exhibit and sell her paintings. Buoyed by this success, she took courses to learn how to play bridge. Then, building on her teaching expertise, she enrolled in a class on how to teach the game, which she now does during her winters in Florida and aboard cruise ships that have taken her and her husband to Hawaii, Europe and the Caribbean. Says Rosenblum, 72: "Don't ever be afraid to try something new, because you never can tell where it's going to lead...
...canyon floor. He had to hike another seven miles to find help. Bandaged and bleeding profusely, Ralston was walking with two other hikers who had encountered him when Sergeant Mitch Vetere of the Emery County Sheriff's Department spotted the group from a helicopter. Once aboard, Ralston asked for water but was remarkably stoic. "He was drained but coherent," says Vetere. "He seemed pretty calm for a guy who had just cut his own arm off." Authorities tried to retrieve the arm later that day, but they had no more luck moving the boulder than Ralston; the rock is said...
...With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got." GEORGE W. BUSH, speaking aboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln...
George W. Bush will spend nearly $300 million trying to get re-elected in 2004, but nothing he buys will come close, in sheer political capital, to what he deposited in his campaign bank last week: the perfect presidential photo op. The scene, of Bush's landing aboard an aircraft carrier in a Navy jet and then strutting across the deck outfitted in a jump suit, "will be the moment of George W. Bush's presidency," predicts Mike Deaver, the master imagemaker to Ronald Reagan...
...emergency was for Mugabe to negotiate with his Movement for Democratic Change. In recent weeks the government has waged a campaign of violent intimidation against MDC supporters following two opposition-led nationwide strikes. Standoff Ends nigeria Striking Nigerian oil workers began releasing some 300 hostages held for two weeks aboard four offshore oil rigs. The crisis ended after an agreement between the oil workers' union and the rigs' owners, U.S.-based Transocean company. Hostage taking is not uncommon in the Southern Niger Delta, where much of the population remains extremely poor despite the country's vast petroleum resources. Race...