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...remote town of Gamboru, Nigeria, waiting for the right moment to slip across the border into Cameroon. Finally, as dawn cracked last Wednesday, Taylor decided to make his escape. A light-colored Land Rover carrying him and four companions--believed to be his wife, son, driver and an aide--drove past an unmanned immigration checkpoint before encountering a final gate across a narrow bridge. Witnesses say the driver and aide got out of the vehicle and started fiddling with the gate's lock. Nigerian customs officials approached the men, who tried to bribe the officers into letting them pass, then...
...edge when he launched a longball into the shrubbery beyond the left-center field fence in the top of the first. Sophomore Matt Vance, returning to the field after serving as designated hitter for several weeks while nursing a shoulder injury, made it 4-1 when he drove in a run with a double in the fifth inning, one of a pair of two-baggers Vance ripped into the left-center gap in the game. “Vance is just swinging really well,” Walsh said. “We got him back in the lineup Thursday...
...entire second game of Monday’s doubleheader, but it was in the seventh inning that the team’s bats were really on fire. Junior Susie Winkeller doubled to right field to start off the inning. Freshman Hayley Bock singled to left and freshman Suzi Cominski drove them both home when she singled, advanced to second on an error, and made it to third on the throw. Reichling doubled to right-center, allowing Cominski to score. Reichling advanced to third on a steal and scored on a double by senior Erin Halpenny. Junior co-captain Julia Kidder...
...photovoltaic shingles on the roof, exterior walls coated with heat-reflective paint and a high-tech system that automatically dims or raises the lights depending on whether it's sunny or overcast. Brent Allen, who manages the experimental store, says customers tell him all the time that "they drove out of their way to shop at this Wal-Mart." Which makes you wonder: If folks drive farther than they have to, aren't they burning extra gasoline in their pickups and SUVS? And isn't that offsetting the store's energy savings...
...greatest risk in the tempest is Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, who drove the pending law through parliament earlier this month without debate - and against the advice of fellow conservatives wary of provoking the very hostility the government now faces. The protesting youths are outraged that the law would allow businesses to fire workers aged 26 and under during their first two years of employment, without providing a reason or the usually hefty severance payments. Students and their backers dispute government contentions that the increased flexibility will reduce youth unemployment; instead, they say the law designates young people...