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...ancient porticoes and 70-ft.-high granite columns dwarf the tourists wandering among them. From the esplanade of the temple of Jupiter -- once the world's largest Roman temple -- Anita Tarossian, 19, and her fiance, Hagop Bedrossian, 23, stand gazing at the temple of Bacchus below them. The Armenian-Lebanese couple have returned from Toronto this summer. They epitomize all that Hizballah objects to. A gold-and-turquoise crucifix hangs from a chain around Anita's neck. Both wear shorts and stand with their arms around each other. "We don't care what Hizballah thinks," says Bedrossian. "Let them object...
...rock or iron, some are over a mile wide and could ram the earth at 65,000 km (40,000 miles) per hour. The odds of a strike within the next 50 years are probably less than one in 10,000. But whenever it does happen, the explosion could dwarf a nuclear bomb blast...
...half of Rome. He joins the navy and finds himself shooting at a much larger Austrian force across the barrier of a river that is, alas, drying up. Friends die. He is swept up in a mutinous retreat, caught, imprisoned, condemned, then released on the whim of a mad dwarf in the war ministry, whose function is to make sure that military orders are garbled and meaningless. Then he is thrown back into the line, wounded, and swept up again, this time in a love affair with a nurse...
...Iraq's dictator controls a personal fortune worth at least $10 billion, according to investigators who say he skimmed that colossal amount from his country's oil revenues and created an army of front companies to put it in banks and investments around the world. Such unprecedented thievery would dwarf the more than $200 million that authorities in the Philippines say former President Ferdinand Marcos looted from that nation's treasury. With so much at stake, governments around the world rushed to dig through mountains of financial documents last week to find Saddam's hidden wealth...
...that the guns have fallen silent, the pounding of jackhammers will soon replace the din of war. At $200 billion or more over the next 10 years, the price of rebuilding ravaged Kuwait seems certain to dwarf the $50 billion or so that it took to liberate the oil-rich country. With that much money at stake, companies around the world began battles of their own long before the shooting war ended, fighting over contracts for everything from hospitals to refineries in one of history's largest reconstruction jobs. "This provides an almost unlimited backlog of good, profitable work," says...