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REFINANCE. If you have yet to miss a payment, refinancing can ease your burden. You can lower your interest rate, extend the term of your loan (thereby stretching out your payments) or convert some of the equity in your home to a cash cushion you could...
...season begins and the contests get tougher while the weather gets rougher, Harvard will have to convert more and more of those crucial fourth downs or short yardage plays to keep drives alive and the opposing defense on the field. The new offensive line got an “A” on Saturday, but it’s still going to have to pass weekly tests to prove its worth...
...Huskies have been on a slide, without a win in their last three competitions after starting out the season with three straight victories. Washington was unable to convert on 24 shots on goal in their last outing, a 1-1 tie with Cal State Fullerton...
Biological weapons present a scarier prospect. Iraq is believed to have fermentation equipment at animal-feed facilities near Baghdad and the ability to convert workaday centrifuges into Cuisinarts for whizzing up lethal agents. But weaponizing most pathogens so that airborne bombs can spray them effectively over large areas remains a challenge for Saddam's engineers. Nonetheless, a gram of anthrax could serve as a poor man's suitcase bomb: that's 1 trillion spores, enough for 100 million fatal doses. Hiding, transporting and disseminating that type of poison is relatively easy: no missiles are needed, just a crop duster, backpack...
...DETAINED. HIROSHI MINAMI, 24, a former officer in the Japanese Self-Defense Force; for joining Chechen rebels in their insurrection against Russia; by security authorities in Georgia. Minami, a convert to Islam, was apprehended as he tried to enter Georgia with a group of Chechen guerrillas...