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Modern technology is such that these sick individuals are catapulted to power with a little gunpowder and some simple ingredients. There are books on the market, often purchased by children, detailing the construction of simple explosives, like the amateur pipe bomb recently found in LaGuardia airport. There is no escaping these realities; the work of our own hands has come back to haunt...
...Cuban team. I try to educate them first, help them make their decision. If their decision is to leave Cuba, then I'll be there for them." Even on the Cubans' recent swing through the South, Cubas could be seen lurking behind their dugout. Rick Lawes, who covers amateur baseball for USA Today, recalls a memorable image from the U.S.-Cuba game in Columbia, South Carolina, which Cuba won, 4-2: "As the sun went down, you could see his silhouette creeping across the diamond. He literally was a shadowy figure...
...nearly breaking the world record in--the 200 on Friday. He topped it all off by anchoring the victorious U.S. 4 x 400-m relay team on Sunday. Asked whether the Olympic schedule would be changed to accommodate Johnson's double dare, Primo Nebiolo, the president of the International Amateur Athletics Federation, said, "If he wanted to run backward, he could...
...raised in Yonkers, New York, and fled her abusive stepfather after her mother died, making money by singing and dancing on the sidewalks of Harlem and warning prostitutes of the arrival of the police. At 16, dressed in cast-off clothes and wearing men's boots, she won an amateur-night contest at the Apollo Theater. When she was brought to Chick Webb's attention, he complained, "I don't want that old ugly thing!" But he took her. As admirers would later marvel, "Poor Ella, she can't play piano. All she can do is sing everything right...
...sprung the trap after learning that the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times were on to the sting. Still, one important figure, Ma, is at large and may have escaped to China. Ku and Chen are under arrest, along with several Chinese and American collaborators. And those amateur actors at Customs and ATF are still laughing at their successful masquerade...