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...Bus is all warmed up for Super Bowl XL in Detroit--255-lb. Pittsburgh Steelers running back Jerome (the Bus) Bettis, that is, who is headed back to his hometown to play the Seattle Seahawks on Feb. 5. Bettis, 33, who is chasing the first NFL title of his stellar 13-year career, spoke with TIME's Sean Gregory about retirement, bowling and the fumble that nearly killed...
...MAINTAIN THAT, ER, PHYSIQUE OF YOURS? Well, let me say this. They don't call me the Bus because I turn down a lot of, ah, food opportunities. But I'm on a diet right now. I mean, it's not the Atkins diet or anything like that. It's watching the portions, maybe...
...TRUE THAT, WHILE GROWING UP ON THE MEAN STREETS OF DETROIT, THE BIG, BRUISING BUS ACTUALLY SPENT HIS FREE TIME BOWLING WITH HIS FAMILY? I bowled until high school--I even had a 300 game. My mother and father, they were very clever in the way they managed our time away from school. And so their way to keep an eye on us was to take us bowling. The weekends were consumed with bowling events, and so I didn't have time to get in too much trouble. It was a pretty clever trick...
...migrant he steered toward his friends who worked as coyotes, smuggling people across the Arizona border. Now, with the business plan for his greenhouses in disarray, he says he plans to move to Phoenix, Ariz., and work as a facilitator for the coyotes, watching over the newcomers and arranging bus or plane tickets for them to their final destination. Pancho estimates he could clear close to $1,000 a week. Working as a facilitator isn't as dangerous as sneaking through the desert with a group of immigrants as the coyotes do, but under the tough new laws aimed...
...revenge. The instructors weren't going to make the same mistake they had made in Ramadi by allowing recruits to become an easy target for a suicide bomber, so they had them sign up in Baghdad. But al-Zarqawi's men were tipped off. Al-Qaeda ambushed the Sunnis' bus on the road and kidnapped the recruits. Their bodies have yet to be found...