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Al-Shahwani brings one other advantage to the job: intimate ties to the CIA. A onetime international athlete who won a gold medal in the decathlon at a 1963 athletic meet in Jakarta, he was sent to the U.S. for Ranger training four years later. By the time of Iraq...
Vacationing in the buff has been discovered by increasing numbers of holidaymakers?at least according to the American Association of Nude Recreation (AANR), which compiled the figures above. And it's not just happening in the U.S., either. Across the world, a crop of tour operators has emerged to cater...
This rescue was inspiring news for the folks back home and other captives and slaves in North African hands, but the event was almost eclipsed by another daring raid the following year. In April 1805, Captain William Eaton put together a mixed force of Arab rebels and mercenaries and American...
DIED. THOMAS GOLD, 84, subversive astrophysicist whose brilliant and often heretical scientific theories dealt with everything from the mechanics of the human ear to the origin of the universe; in Ithaca, N.Y. In 1948, with fellow physicists Fred Hoyle and Hermann Bondi, he proposed the steady-state theory of cosmology...
Friends describe Zakrzewski as eccentric—combining a mix of eclectic influences, including her international upbringing in Poland, Canada and New York City, a daring sense of style and a love of fashion and partying.