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...President Bush to do everything in his power to help my husband,” Christin X. Fu, Yang’s wife and a researcher at Harvard Medical School (HMS), said at the one hour press conference in Washington. “Please do not forget terrorism is bred where there is no respect for human rights, no democracy, freedom and rule...
...rulers of Dubai and world-renowned owners and breeders of race horses, celebrated an equestrian victory of a different sort when Sheik Ahmed bin Mohammed al Maktoum, son of the crown prince, Sheik Mohammed, became the family's first winning jockey. The 16-year-old prince rode his American-bred Bowman to first place in the endurance championship at the World Equestrian Games. Horse and rider overcame 160 km of difficult country - made so treacherous by torrential rain that dozens of horses pulled up and two died of exhaustion - to take the prize ahead of Italy's Antonio Rosi...
...cherishes the word bitch more than Eve, and that's saying something. Male rappers use it all the time as an ostensibly neutral term for all women besides their mothers (or, in the case of Eminem, all women). But on her new CD, Eve-Olution (Interscope), the Philadelphia-bred queen of Top 40 rap applies it to herself and with fervid conviction. Eve sings about being a bitch the way Bob Marley sang about being a Rastafarian: it's what her album is about...
...monopoly on the ability to project force globally. American power is much in demand. From the Balkans to the border between North and South Korea, American armed forces maintain a degree of stability in places that would otherwise be flash points. But this very ubiquity of American power has bred a natural resentment. The Bush Administration is not entirely paranoid to imagine that American mistakes - like bombing a Chinese embassy in Belgrade or an Afghan wedding party - are more likely to be the source of international condemnation than those made by other nations. Yet just as it did with...
...wealth of rare desert animals, including the Arabian oryx, a white antelope with long spiral horns and distinctive black markings. Special kidneys allow the oryx to survive long periods of time without water. By 1972, however, oryx in the wild were hunted almost to extinction, but a new herd, bred in captivity, is slowly being reintroduced to two desert areas. The Central Area Wildlife Reserve has been closed to the public for the past 25 years, but is now opened to limited official tours; browse www.discoveryinitiatives.com/oman.asp....