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...unworthy of precious defense dollars and a bit too independent to boot. Disclosures last November that members of the supersecret Delta Force had been charged with skimming covert intelligence funds only heightened Pentagon suspicions that the Special Forces are a bunch of freebooters. Shrugged retired Army Brigadier General Donald Blackburn, an expert on unconventional warfare: "Special Forces have always been the bastards of the Army...
...matrons inside St. John's Methodist Church in a comfort able all-white neighborhood of Port Elizabeth. Together they sang freedom songs and prayed for a more peaceful future. For black and white South Africans, it was an unusual display of racial harmony. The occasion: the funeral of Molly Blackburn, a leading white antiapartheid activist who was killed in an automobile crash...
...Blackburn, a 55-year-old mother of seven, was an active member of the Black Sash, a group of white women who campaign against apartheid. One of the government's most visible white opponents, she had been arrested several times for attending illegal gatherings with blacks and for entering black townships without permission. Blackburn was often the only white to attend mass funeral rallies for blacks who had died in the racial unrest of the past 16 months, and last week blacks paid tribute to her. "Africans in this country are walking tall on the road she has blazed," Black...
...moment, the market is being driven by teenagers, who have moved far beyond talking on their phones. "I text more than I talk," says Josh Blackburn, 19, of Naperville, Ill., who tries to keep his $70 monthly cell-phone bill under control by talking only after 7 p.m., when his minutes become free. But he will pay to send text messages to his friends, to IM them and to download wallpaper of Jessica Simpson. Royce Badger, 17, of Atlanta, loves his commute to school--that's when he plays racquetball on his cell phone. Erin Duffy, 17, a high school...
...wrong with their DNA and that stress wasn't the cause. But that wouldn't explain another crucial fact: the degree of cellular damage was highest in women who had been caring for a disabled child the longest. "We tried our hardest to make the result go away," says Blackburn, "because we wanted to make sure we weren't fooling ourselves. But we couldn...