Word: ground
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...some peace in Kosovo. NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana announced Sunday that with the Serb troops out of Kosovo ? ahead of schedule, no less ? "I have accordingly decided to terminate with immediate effect the air campaign." President Clinton assured CNN it was "a very happy day." But on the ground in Kosovo, the early signs are already making the push-button war look like the easy part. Across the province, KLA troops ? in full camouflage and still fully armed despite agreements to the contrary ? are parading in full view of NATO troops and making everybody nervous. In the German-held...
...have huge advantages over conventional radio. Satellite radio can blanket the country with its signals, so you'll never drive out of range of your favorite station; zones that a satellite can't reach, such as areas with tall buildings, will be taken care of by ground-based relay stations. Satellite radio is also much clearer than conventional radio, and it can offer hundreds of different channels, some of which (or so its promoters promise) will be commercial-free. MORE...
...consolidation of sorts among five of the nation?s top health organizations. The American Cancer, Dietetic and Heart associations, together with the American Academy of Pediatrics and the National Institutes of Health, have joined forces to endorse a common eating plan. The Unified Dietary Guidelines break no new ground, but they bring together under one program the various daily recommendations of each organization: For example, the guidelines propose that a person consume no more than 30 percent of calories from all types of fat (and no more than 10 percent from saturated fat), that cholesterol be limited to no more...
...demoralizing the Brazilians. Italy could very easily have massed its defense even more, until its frantic opponent began making the mistakes that would encompass its ruin. But, led by Pele, Brazil paid no attention. Attacking as if the Italians were a practice team, the Brazilians ran them into the ground...
...squad have bayonets ready for battle. One is injured but willing; another, caught in the arms of a comrade, is in the swoon of death. PRO PATRIA ET GLORIA--"For country and glory"--their motto reads in granite, barely legible. The infantrymen rise 15 ft. above the ground, an altitude that is microcosmic from the distance of the Sea of Tranquility. SIC TRANSIT GLORIA? As much can be said of the statue of Emmeline Pankhurst in London, her Edwardian gown antique against the constantly renewed moon, which has waned and waxed over her and other great men and women...