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But for many shoe nerds, Nike rules. Since it first issued a retro Air Jordan in 1994, Nike has consistently created some of the rarest, most coveted sneakers. In 2001 in a Sacramento, Calif., mall, 60 police officers in riot gear faced a tense crowd of 200 people ready to...
After nursing their wounds and regrouping across the border in Pakistan, Afghanistan's former rulers have found both a fresh strategy and renewed vigor to cause trouble back home. A bus bombing that killed 15 people (including six children) in Helmand province on Aug. 13 kicked off perhaps Afghanistan's...
When detectives came calling this summer at the 25-acre ranch of Lucio Avianeda, outside Minatitlan in southern Mexico, their mission was to arrest Avianeda and his alleged partner in crime, Constantino (Coty) Andrade. But before the lawmen got to the ranch house, they heard voices coming from the stables...
But as the detectives headed to the house to make arrests, something frighteningly unusual happened. Instead of scattering like the desert animals that migrant smugglers are named for--coyotes--henchmen working for Avianeda and Andrade fired at the cops with automatic weapons. "We've never faced that kind of resistance...
The most significant step the airport has taken, though, is its aggressive profiling program: cops and other trained airport workers try to determine the intent of certain passengers--rather than just the content of their carry-ons. These hundreds of professional watchdogs have been trained over the past six months...