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Sanjin Tunovic has some very vivid memories from his early life. Of course, most people would if they spent their childhood in war-torn Sarajevo, Bosnia...
...learn English, take courses as a junior at Union-Endicott High School, and try to break into the social cliques that had already fully formed among her peers. Sanjin’s father Ibrahim was forced to take work below that of what he was accustomed; an engineer in Bosnia, his education wasn’t deemed sufficient for an engineering job in the States. Sanjin’s mother stayed at home...
...never committed to anything but family,” says Union-Endicott head coach Shane Hurd, who also coached Tunovic in middle school. “It gave him a sense of belonging that I don’t know if he had since he left Bosnia...
...Visoko, Bosnia, might be home to the Eighth Wonder of the World, or so its residents hope. Researchers last week excavated geometrically cut stones from a hill near the town--apparently the building blocks of the first ancient step pyramid ever found in Europe. Archaeologist Semir Osmanagic estimates the pyramid is 722 ft. high--a third taller than Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza--and was built about 12,000 years ago by an unknown civilization. Other experts are skeptical. "More likely," says UCLA archaeologist Willeke Wendrich, "this is a case of Europeans around 6 A.D. with...
...you’ve got good intelligence, which clearly didn’t happen in Iraq, and making sure you’ve got a well-thought-through plan. One of the lessons that has to come out of Iraq and that goes back to other interventions in Somalia, Bosnia, Afghanistan, even back to Haiti, is that simply having the military power to take out the command and control of the enemy is really only step one. What do you really do in terms of getting the power back on, getting the water back on, reestablishing civil authority...