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...Caracas representing the first Bush administration at Perez' inauguration, was already fuming about Carter's meeting that week with Nicaraguan leader Daniel Ortega.) "I almost picked her up and walked her to the elevator to get her out of there in time," Pastor recalled. "And ten seconds later Castro burst into the room...
...covered a lot of ground during his five-day odyssey - 3,400 miles, to be exact, leaving a trail of 18 pipe bombs. The devices, which Helder planted in mailboxes, injured six people, spraying BBs and nails in a burst of smokeless gunpowder. (In one more bizarre twist, Helder says he was planning to place the bombs in locations to form a sort of geographical smiley face...
...Egyptian embassy in Islamabad that killed 15 people. The Egyptians surrounded the safe house in the Pakistani frontier city of Peshawar where Khadr, an Egyptian Canadian, was hiding. All that remained was to notify General Mehmood Ahmed, then Pakistan's chief spymaster, so that his spooks could burst in and arrest Khadr. Ahmed promised swift action...
...neuroimaging study, Pierce observed, the fusiform gyrus in autistic people did not react when they were presented with photographs of strangers, but when photographs of parents were substituted, the area lit up like an explosion of Roman candles. Furthermore, this burst of activity was not confined to the fusiform gyrus but, as in normal subjects, extended into areas of the brain that respond to emotionally loaded events. To Pierce, this suggests that as babies, autistic people are able to form strong emotional attachments, so their social aloofness later on appears to be the consequence of a brain disorganization that worsens...
...Radcliffe was, as it gained open water with a strong burst at 750 meters. The Black and White further extended its lead to 1.5 lengths with its patented “Radcliffe move” at the Massachusetts Avenue Bridge, during which junior coxswain Cait Koss yelled “thirty years” in reference to the program’s history...