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Gerald Stanley Hawkins, a British-born astronomer who taught at the Harvard-Smithsonian Observatories and first theorized that Stonehenge was created by Neolithic people to track solar and lunar movements, died May 26 at his farm in Virginia...
...around Tikrit, U.S. soldiers with the 4th Infantry Division's 1st Brigade--known as the Raiders--have enjoyed several big scores: they helped special forces nab Saddam's trusted aide Abid Hamid Mahmud, seized more than a ton of plastic explosives and hundreds of weapons and uncovered at a farm more than $9 million in cash plus a buried chest of jewels worth more than $1 million that belonged to Saddam's first wife Sajida. But the U.S. forces have been unable to capture Saddam, even as the former Iraqi leader somehow circulates recorded messages calling on Iraqis to fight...
...area, from Baiji, 20 miles north of Tikrit, to Balad, 50 miles to the south. At the end of June, the brigade intercepted a nephew of Saddam's who was carrying $800,000 in a Samsonite briefcase, presumably moving it from a hidden stash to a delivery point. The farm where the brigade found millions of dollars and Sajida's jewels is believed to have been a way station for those aiding Saddam...
...actually lived the nightmare, escaping only at the last minute. A year ago, in the midst of a bad case of level-orange jitters about national security, Americans got a bit of good news. After three days of suspense, nine miners who had crouched 240 ft. beneath a dairy farm in Somerset County, Pa., gasping as the last of their air leached away, were delivered from their flooded mine. The first figure millions of TV viewers saw emerge from the land of the dead, cradled in a yellow rescue capsule, was the crew foreman, Randy Fogle, 45, sent up before...
...What you don't see a lot of - and what makes this alarming - is that the government is writing checks." If the government isn't talking, Osen and his client Barbara Principe are. She's a 70-year-old mother of seven children who grew up on a chicken farm in New Jersey, barely aware that her grandfather Franz Wertheim was co-owner of a German retail legend. In 1951 a German lawyer named Arthur Lindgens, a distant relative by marriage of the Wertheim family, bought out Principe's father's and uncle's share for the equivalent of about...