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Sheik Hassan Assi could see that the burly Kurdish guerrilla leader was in no mood to bargain. The Kurd, he recalls, backed him against a wall and shook his forefinger, saying, "Shame on you, Sheik, for building a house on Kurdish land. You knew we would be back one day...
Confrontations like these between Kurds and Arabs are threatening to make Kirkuk, Iraq's fifth largest city, the world's new Sarajevo, a site of ethnic cleansing and slaughter. Though Assi's encounter with Abdullah ended without bloodshed, at least two gun battles in the city have together left more...
???? While the na?ve fans of soccer and rugby expect players to be generalists who can pay both offense and defense, we Americans have done what we?ve always done when we want results: we turn to specialists. Zoologists who argue that dogs have the greatest variation in size of any...
BONNYBRIDGE: If it's a close encounter you're after, go to the UFO capital of the world. Over the past decade there have been an incredible?some might say unlikely?60,000 UFO sightings in and around this small Scottish town. That's 10 for each resident.
ROSWELL: As every UFO enthusiast knows, an alien spacecraft putatively crashed in the desert near this New Mexico town in 1947 - and the U.S. military tried to cover it up. At the Roswell International UFO Museum, visitors can examine hundreds of autopsy drawings, sworn affidavits and newspaper reports from the...