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...feigns secrecy regarding what he did before dealing books and training van drivers but he is actually forthcoming about his past pursuits. He claims some role in the invention of the first Westinghouse continuous-reading bore hole drift probe created—specialized equipment that keeps oil drills from straying too far from their marks...
...Hamdullah was the only survivor left behind in the school grounds that night. Villagers say two wounded were taken to hospital in distant Tarin Kowt. Among the dead were two men with their hands tied behind their backs. The narrow plastic zip ties bore the markings: "US Pat. No. 5651376. Other Pat. Pending...
Despite these outward signs of festivity, the “Olympic” food bore a suspicious resemblance to regularly served fare. In fact, with the exception of white and dark chocolate fondue and bread bowls for the stew that was served, Olympic dishes were indistinguishable from their less-festive counterparts...
...WORLD SERIES. If baseball were this great all the time, Bud Selig wouldn't be trying to shrink the league. With Manhattan smoldering, the Yankees bore the city's pain and pride to the Bronx and won three games there, snatching two with midnight dramatics. No sentimental ending, though. The Arizona Diamondbacks' spectacular pitching duo of Curt Schilling and Randy Johnson numbed Yankee bats in Phoenix, while a seventh-game, bottom-of-the-ninth rally provided a classic, and deserved, triumph for the home team...
ANTHRAX BREAK Investigators discovered anthrax on a letter at a Seymour, Conn., residence one mile from the Oxford home of Ottilie Lundgren, the 94-year-old woman who died two weeks ago of anthrax. CLUES The letter bore the same N.J. postmark as did those sent to Senators Daschle and Leahy in Washington, and the letters appear to have moved through the same sorting machine within seconds of one another. NEXT STEP Officials suggest that cross-contamination of mail could explain Lundgren's fatal infection and hope to find similarities between her case and that of the Bronx woman...