Word: desertions
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...child in soviet Ukraine, Wladimir Klitschko was so enamored of all things American that he sniffed the carbonated air from a bootlegged bottle of Coca-Cola to "smell" the free world. "We felt then like Robinson Crusoe on his desert island," says Klitschko, 26. Now, having visited the U.S. more than 100 times on his way to becoming one of the world's top boxers, Klitschko has grown accustomed to another fragrance - the sweet smell of success...
...SAMPLING Air sucked through special filters will capture lots of desert dust and maybe small amounts of chemical, biological or radioactive material. U.N. teams will also use swipes and handheld detectors...
United Nations weapons inspectors are back in Baghdad. Their return this week came almost exactly four years after their hasty departure in 1998. That exit had signaled the start of Operation Desert Fox, a four-day, U.S.-led bombing campaign to punish Iraq for failing to comply with UN disarmament resolutions. But Desert Fox was followed by a stalemate - no inspections, and no end to sanctions - until the Security Council two weeks ago adopted Resolution 1441. Now, renewed inspections are not just the route to ending sanctions; they could determine the very future of Saddam Hussein's regime...
Imagine a jet engine that doesn't pollute the atmosphere, flies at seven times the speed of sound and doesn't carry any fuel. Sound like a blue-sky pipe dream? One day last July, 300 km above the South Australian Desert, that dream became a reality in the form of the HyShot scramjet. A scramjet (that's top-gun shorthand for "supersonic ramjet") is a jet engine that is powered by oxygen it scoops out of the air as it flies, so it's not weighed down by a fuel tank (though it needs an initial boost...
...according to Yemeni officials, a former bodyguard of Osama bin Laden's and the local mastermind of the attack on the U.S.S. Cole in Aden harbor in October 2000. When an American Predator drone fired its Hellfire missile into al-Harethi's car as it moved along a remote desert road east of Yemen's capital Sana'a, it also killed five other people--all of them al-Qaeda operatives, according to the U.S., one a man Yemen says was a U.S. citizen. He was not just any man, it seems. U.S. officials think he was Kamal Derwish, a Yemeni...