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...clutch handle snapped clean off in the fall, but that was not the most pressing disaster. My hulking Minsk dirt bike was lying on the only road up the mountain?and so was its less-than-hulking rider. Fumbling to find second gear, I had stalled the bike, wobbled and fallen over. Now I had to get myself and the bike off the road, fast. An adrenaline-driven heave on my part and the help of a passerby pulled us out of immediate danger, but that still left the problem of the clutch handle. It was the second...
...announce some $470 million in total budget cuts this week. Harrison township has already had to shut down its recreation department, sell 12 vehicles, slash $16,000 earmarked to clear seaweed that hampers boat traffic near the Lake St. Clair shoreline and cut $19,000 for improvements to dirt roads. The town board had to approve a special assessment last week to cover police and fire protection. "People still don't have their eyes open," says newly elected township supervisor Mark Knowles, the first Democrat voted into that office in 33 years. "They're going around saying, 'You're raising...
...says Richard Butler, head of the inspection team ousted in 1998, the real dirt will ultimately be mined by comparing the new documents with the million pages on file at the U.N. and teasing out inconsistencies in the new inventory. The length of the declaration is no doubt intentional, Butler tells Time. "Dumping a truckload of material is part of the process of obfuscation," he says. It is the U.N.'s responsibility to assess Iraq's report. Officials there said they would not even share the declaration with Security Council members until they had purged any sections that serve...
Heilman was called back to the reserves in January 2002. He spent his reading period guarding the Israeli-Palestinian border, a narrow dirt path. He patrolled the area in a Jeep, searching for bombs and for people crossing the border. Most were seeking jobs, he says, though some were armed and looking to kill Israelis. In his pack—alongside his gas mask, bullets, grenades, helmet and cigarettes—Heilman stashed his “Surrealism” and Math 21a textbook...
...foreigners and then move to the Bahamas," he said. "My aim," he later explained to TIME, "is to destroy the mafia. I am showing that I am not afraid of criminals no matter where they are." Others say he is doing what he has always done: dish the dirt against his political enemies. Milosevic and Seselj "want to make Serbia's new leaders look as bad as possible," says Ljiljana Bacevic, head of the Institute for Social Sciences at the University of Belgrade. Given voter discontent, that shouldn't be too difficult. In a recent survey, 50% said they were...