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...world. Experienced observers will let the uninitiated peer through telescopes and binoculars for a glimpse of this heavenly show. "My phone hasn't stopped ringing," says Derrick Pitts, chief astronomer at Philadelphia's Franklin Institute science museum and host of a show on the Mars encounter that will be broadcast over many PBS stations this week...
Poker was first broadcast on television in 1993, but it wasn't until 2002 that the game became watchable. In No Limit Texas Hold 'Em (the preferred game of the poker cognoscenti), players are dealt two cards that only they can see, called "hole cards," and then five more community cards are placed in the middle of the table. According to Lon McEachern, the play-by-play guy on World Series, watching Hold 'Em without seeing the hole cards "was like having McEnroe and Boris Becker playing Wimbledon in the dark, then turning on the lights after the point...
...world's jihadists, Iraq is the new Afghanistan - that would be Afghanistan twenty years ago, when young Muslim warriors from around the world flocked in to help fight the "infidel" Soviet invader, and in the process founded al-Qaeda. Bin Laden's group on Monday broadcast a new tape urging Islamists everywhere to make their way to Iraq and wage war on American forces there. U.S. forces have captured foreign jihadists during sweeps north of Baghdad, and it was reported this week that up to 3,000 Saudi Islamists may have gone to Iraq to fight the U.S. Tuesday...
...later became the organizational and political core of al-Qaeda. Now, the movement is hoping to repeat the experience, albeit under more trying circumstances - this time, the volunteers won't have the support of the CIA and the Saudis, or staging areas in Pakistan. Al-Arabiya TV on Monday broadcast an audio tape from an al-Qaeda leader urging supporters to make their way to Iraq to fight the occupation forces, and after that to overthrow the Saudi regime. And U.S. forces have found evidence that a number of radical Islamists from all over the Arab world may have already...
DIED. ROBERTO MARINHO, 98, media magnate and one of Brazil's richest and most powerful men; in Rio de Janeiro. Inheriting a small newspaper from his father when he was 20, he built O Globo into an empire whose television stations reached 99.9% of the country's homes and broadcast Brazilian soap operas around the world...