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...Kyrgyz leader's announcement came on the same day that militants in Pakistan blew up a key Khyber Pass bridge, cutting NATO's main supply line into Afghanistan and highlighting its vulnerability. Of course, Bakiyev happened to be standing alongside Russian President Dmitri Medvedev at a Moscow news conference when he served notice on the U.S. to vacate the Manas air base. Moscow, in fact, had just promised to give Bakiyev a vital $2 billion economic bailout package. Russia's motivations, and its intentions, are ambiguous. (See pictures of NATO's vulnerable Pakistani supply route...
...Richie Valens for the remaining seat. Valens won. The three musicians boarded the red and white single-engine Beech Bonanza around 12:30 on Feb. 3. Fans flocked to the tarmac, waving and crying and asking for autographs. The musicians waved back and then climbed onto the plane. Snow blew across the runway but the sky was clear. Peterson received clearance from the control tower, taxied down the runway and took off. He was never told of two weather advisories that warned of an oncoming blizzard...
...final days of 2008, residents of Australia's southeast might have been forgiven for thinking summer had finished early. On the island state of Tasmania in the far south, freezing gales blew, blanketing mountains with snow. In the state of Victoria, in the southeastern corner of the mainland, the number of sunny hours a day dropped from the normal 8.3 to a mere seven. "Where has our summer gone," moaned a newspaper report, while some readers commented that it made you wonder if global warming was real...
...individual events as well. Battling sickness all week, Diekema overcame this obstacle to finish first in the 200-yard backstroke in 1:45.16. The sophomore also placed second in the 100-yard backstroke, falling only to Yale senior standout Alex Righi. On the board, sophomore Zac Ranta blew away the competition in the one-meter dive, finishing with a score of 288.05 points. Ranta also came in third in the three-meter dive, barely passed by Yale’s Drew Teer and Princeton’s Daniel Dickerson. “Overall at this meet we showed...
...well from the stripe as in addition to Housman’s late misses, the team blew four shots in the first half, including a pair by Lin in the final minute that could have ensured the Crimson went into the locker room with a lead...