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Then fresh out of college and eager to tackle his first presidential race, Trippi - who has worked on every contested race in Iowa since 1980 - had organized all of Monticello's youngsters to caucus for Kennedy. His rival, Hogan, host of the county's largest caucus, had likewise organized the precinct's parents to caucus for Carter. When none of the kids dared defy their parents' wishes, Kennedy lost the precinct - and the county. "I remember being in the kitchen a few weeks before that when Ethel Kennedy came to visit our house, campaigning for Ted," James Hogan, Jr., Jimmy...
...news about an asteroid known as 2007 WD5. The good news is that this 164-ft.-wide chunk of speeding space rock, discovered in November in an ongoing search for potential threats to Earth, won't hit our planet any time in the foreseeable future. The better news - for eager space-watchers - is that the asteroid, currently about halfway between Earth and Mars, has a plausible chance of hitting the Red Planet at the end of January. If it does, astronomers will be treated to an unprecedented sight...
...correspondents to send in suggestions. We have meetings. I talk to wise men and women--some of them previous Persons of the Year. But in the end, it has to be someone or something that feels right, something that's a little unexpected, someone our readers will be eager to know more about...
...unparalleled team in Russia. The fascinating cover story on Putin was written by deputy managing editor Adi Ignatius. Adi served as the Wall Street Journal's Moscow bureau chief in the early 1990s and was eager to get back to Russia. Moscow correspondent Yuri Zarakhovich knows all the right questions and the people who can answer them. Senior editor Nathan Thornburgh, who wrote the beautiful story retracing a famous journey from Moscow to St. Petersburg, has followed Russia since his first visit as a 15-year-old exchange student. Yuri Kozyrev, who took the superb pictures for Nathan...
...Chitwan's ex-guerrillas certainly appear eager to make the switch to civilian life. Neat gravel paths cross through manicured lawns; Bollywood songs blare from a thatch-roofed cabin. Yet conditions in this and the six other main Maoist cantonments are squalid - food and potable water are always in short supply, and the camp doctors grumble about a lack of medicines from the interim government. Trenches once dug for protection from helicopter gunships now serve as makeshift dormitories for many fighters and their families...