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However, since junior fullback Damon Jones was lost for the season, Harvard is left without an experienced ball-carrier at the fullback position, and much of the ball-carrying load from that position, has been dumped on Nwokocha at tailback...
...hadn't the spacecraft responded to controllers' signals before? Perhaps, suggested an ESA scientist, the probing signals were too complex for the weakened SOHO to comprehend. Early in August controllers sent a much simpler message. Result: contact! SOHO responded by transmitting its carrier signal. It was still alive and, as its batteries gradually charged, able to transmit a modicum of data...
...bomb was not, as some reported, on that water truck. It detonated somewhere behind the truck, leaving a crater 9 ft. wide and 4 ft. deep. Metal bits, perhaps from the mystery carrier but also from two dozen cars near the embassy, were scattered widely. A witness told the FBI she saw a man with a small black device, like a remote control for a detonator, climb out of a car near the embassy and look repeatedly at his watch. Evidence to date suggests the bomb may have been in a light truck parked behind the water carrier...
...Chinese leaders tested that American commitment in 1996 when they lobbed a barrage of missiles perilously close to major ports in Taiwan. Clinton replied by dispatching two U.S. aircraft carrier battle groups to the waters around Taiwan. Everyone learned a lesson from the scrape. Taipei and Washington found out that Beijing will respond militarily to what it thinks are President Lee Teng-hui's tendencies toward independence. China discovered that the U.S. would not let Taiwan be shoved around if it had done nothing wrong. Since then, Washington has indicated that it is not ready to help defend Taiwan...
...accept a percentage of the company in return. For its part, Air France scrapped a two-tier pay system and promised the pilots that this is not the slippery slope to privatization. All well and good, but the fans still trapped at home by the World Cup carrier's strike will still miss Wednesday's Brazil-Scotland opener. For the image-conscious French, there's just one word for it all: Merde...