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...None of this, of course, detracts from the epic significance of the Soviet Union's collapse. It closed the book on an unhappy epoch and heralded the dawn of one brimming with boundless potential for expanding human freedom, realizing human potential and improving the quality of human life. There has been, and still is, great promise - even if, ten years on, most of it remains to be fulfilled...
...packed pizzeria. As news of the latest outrage broke, Palestinian security officials began hurriedly evacuating their premises, knowing that a fearsome Israeli retaliation is all but inevitable. The last vestiges of the cease-fire brokered by CIA chief George Tenet will probably have been laid to rest by dawn on Friday. But Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has no good options for moving forward...
...Dawn Maynard, 44, is a personal trainer and the mother of two boys, 14 and 15. An immigrant from Guyana, she lives in Bethesda, Md., and admits that she spoils her sons with electronics, even though she wishes she didn't. Still, she sees the war being fought all around her and counts the ways she has not surrendered. Some neighbors rented their son a limo to go to the prom. It seated 24. "My kids are in a county-run math camp that costs less than $200 for the entire three weeks. My sons' best friend is at golf...
...hospital, Jessie had gone without blood--and thus oxygen--for 30 min. The medics put him on a gurney and took him down in an elevator four floors to Trauma Room 9, continuing CPR all the way. As doctors, nurses, aides and technicians hunched over the lifeless boy, nurse Dawn Colbert inserted an IV into his arm and began a rapid infusion of O-negative blood, the universal-donor type. Within 15 minutes, Colbert pumped nearly 1.5 liters of warmed blood into Jessie, about half the normal volume for an 80-lb. boy. Jessie began to bleed. But his heart...
...hours away. But in Kashmir, Indian troops surprise a guerrilla company at Sajawalli in Surankot, close to the Line of Control, the de facto border. According to the official Indian report, the rebels, whom it accuses of crossing from Pakistan, open fire immediately when challenged. The shooting rages through dawn and beyond, eight hours in all. The army later proudly displays the bodies of 18 "foreign mercenaries," whom it says were members of the Lashkar-i-Tayyaba and Jaish-e-Muhammad groups, while claiming its side suffered no casualties. After press photographers take the dead fighters' pictures, the corpses...