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...Over the last few months, Taliban-led violence has crept closer to Kabul, with militants taking control of districts within four hours' drive of the capital. Now, nowhere seems immune from the violence. "I vary my route every day on the way to work but was running late and could have easily been on the road where the bomb struck," said a Western businessman who has an office near the site of one of the bombs. "It was a wake-up call...
DIED. Eric Gregg, 55, beloved, sometimes berated major league baseball umpire known as the "plump ump," who fought a public battle with obesity as his weight crept at times to nearly 400 lbs.; after suffering a stroke; in Philadelphia. Just the third African-American umpire in major league history, Gregg thrilled fans by goofily dancing with mascots and infuriated those who claimed he had an unusually big strike zone...
...ordinary Sunday afternoon sometime in the fall of 1987, I crept down the hallway of my Manhattan apartment, pressed my tiny frame against the wall, and peered around the corner into the living room, where my father was situated on the couch watching the Giants play. I was not yet three, so I had very little idea as to precisely what was going on, or why helmeted men who rather strongly resembled monsters were violently assaulting one another on television. But regardless, as the precocious, attention-seeking youngster that I was, I saw my window of opportunity and I seized...
What really fascinates scientists about the fishapod is that it fits so neatly into one of the most exciting chapters in the history of life--when creatures that swam in seas and rivers gave rise to things that walked, ran and crept on land. The fishapod appears to be a crucial link in the long chain that over time led to amphibians, reptiles, dinosaurs, birds and mammals. Indeed, Tiktaalik roseae, the official name bestowed on the fishapod (in the language of the local Inuit, tiktaalik means "large fish in stream"), falls anatomically between the lobe-finned fish Panderichthys, found...
...recent alum, Jill Hopman, says she saw members of the team chugging shots of liquor and shouting "Duke lacrosse" at Charlie's, a popular student hangout, on Saturday, March 25, a full day after the allegations crept into the news. The Duke administration had already decided to forfeit that day's game against Georgetown as punishment for the underage drinking at the party. "I was thinking, You're representing more than yourself," Hopman says. "It was just giving Duke a bad name." She wrote an Op-Ed in the student newspaper, the Chronicle, describing the incident. She has been told...