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...their contraband straight out of Russia and into Europe, across some of the best-guarded borders in the world. As customs officials caught wise, the smugglers started shifting their route south, running a flanking pattern through Central Asia, the Caucasus Mountains and Turkey before resurfacing in Europe. This modified buttonhook play allows traffickers to take advantage of established drug routes--a smart strategy, since customs agents in a place such as Tajikistan, where 200 tons of drugs may cross the border on a busy day, can easily overlook a few ounces of nuclear contraband...
Dole's daily life has been one long stamina-demonstration project. He begins his schedule around 7:45 a.m., though aides admit he isn't a morning person. He dresses himself with a buttonhook -- painstaking exercise for a man without the use of one arm, struggling through the top button of his shirt and the knot on his tie by himself. He exercises regularly on the treadmill his wife Elizabeth bought him a few years ago and then spent months coaxing him to use. (Horrified at the recent photo ops, she vowed to buy him some decent jogging shorts...
...heart, L for limp, X for mental defect. With still evident embarrassment, Sophie recalls a distressing moment when a nurse "put her hand under my skirt. She was checking for I don't know what, but she did it to everyone." Then a doctor dipped a buttonhook into an antiseptic solution and used it to flip back the eyelid. The reason: to check for trachoma, a blinding disease that would leave the immigrant an unwanted public charge. Trachoma was the most common medical reason for sending immigrants back to their native countries. (In fact, out of 12 million...
Stratton ran a short buttonhook on the Burke. But Hurley stepped in front of him to intercept easily and virtually end any hopes Holy Cross had of winning...
...headed into an orbit aiming him several miles behind and above the Agena. Jamming his control stick down, Young dived the spacecraft in a brute-force attempt to get back on the correct trajectory. He failed, but finally did manage to swerve the spacecraft into a nearly normal "buttonhook" rendezvous. Though his quick thinking saved the maneuver, the incident burned up 268 more lbs. of precious propellant than mission plans had anticipated...