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Another reason officers give for grounding the Apaches is what might happen to the 400,000 Kosovars crowded into Albania if the choppers fly. "If we launch attacks from Albania, the Serbs aren't going to see it as a neutral country," a Joint Staff planner says. "And a lot of those refugees are in crowded camps within range of Serbian artillery." Already smarting over charges that the allied bombing accelerated Milosevic's ethnic cleansing, the Pentagon doesn't want to be blamed for triggering more civilian carnage...
When drivers aren't praying, they're fasting. Who knew they were an offshoot of the Franciscan monks? As I'm talking to Kyle Petty, the ponytailed shaman among NASCAR drivers, he goes into the refrigerator of his trailer for an energy bar and makes sure it has the right ratio of protein to carbohydrates. "In the trailer park where all the drivers live in their coaches, if you're out of skim milk or tuna, you know what door to knock on, because you know who's on what diet...
Moved PermanentlyMoved PermanentlyFortune Investor DataBrokerage houses, especially the smaller ones, aren't too excited about having to staff twelve hours of trading. The Mom-and-Pop e-traders, meanwhile, are slavering over the chance to do their trading when they're home from work and able to concentrate -- unless, of course, they've had a few with dinner. Or else they're leery, like many professional traders, about what all-day, all-night investment opportunities will do to their tickers. Kadlec says the plan's success all depends on how many of the former type get hooked. "There's after...
Loyalty. Honor. Courage. Fortitude. Ideals that, sadly, aren't revered or seen much in our world anymore. The comic book warriors of the "Star Wars" films indulge in these virtues with abandon upon stages breathtaking in their special effects. The Jedi, strong in the "Force," battle the Dark Side, i.e., the evil very present in the world, in all worlds, and across galaxies and time. The success of the execution of this is unparalleled--attracting theatergoers of all ages and points of view, from Harvard undergraduates to their sometimes Luddite parents...
...outdo one another in innovative gore, video games teach kids how to use guns, and the Internet is a wide-open forum. So while we're chipping away at the Second Amendment, why not peel back some layers of the First Amendment, which permits freedom of speech? Aren't we willing to subject movies, video games and the Internet to the same scrutiny as guns? SCOTT BLEDSOE Naples, Italy...