Word: groving
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...following day, near the village of Sleptsovskaya on the Chechnya- Ingushetiya border, a fiery-red morning sun was melting the light frost on fertile fields and groves lining the highway to Grozny 18 miles away. But Russian soldiers in a column of 50 light tanks, armored personnel carriers and trucks could not enjoy the idyllic scene; they had to stop and take shelter behind their vehicles from unseen Chechen snipers. In a lovely grove left of the highway, a Grad missile launcher fired its projectiles toward the Chechen village of Achkoi-Martan four miles ahead; heavy artillery boomed and fires...
...Baker Street Irregulars, noninitiates consider Trekkies to be pretty odd: Trekkies like Pete Mohney, a computer programmer in Birmingham, Alabama, who leads a double life as captain of his local Starfleet "ship," the Hephaestus NC-2004, and publisher of a 40-page Trekkie newsletter; or Jerry Murphy, a Sugar Grove, Illinois, business manager and father of two, who is commander of a local Klingon club and frequently dresses up as one of the big-browed aliens for charity events. "Nobody messes with Klingons," he says. "We're the bikers of the Star Trek world...
...Gaza Strip as strike forces against the Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants threatening to intensify attacks on Arafat's budding Palestinian government. Their threat comes in response to the shootingdeaths of 14 Islamic protestersby PLO police in Gaza City Friday. (Today, gunmen in a Gaza City orange grove shot and killed a Palestinian secret police captain, the first time an officer had been ambushed.)Arafat, in fact, interspersed dozens of masked Fatah Hawks at a rally of 10,000 supporters yesterday, and Gaza's police chief today suggested they would soon be sent out against the militants, which oppose peace...
...gutsy move, since microprocessors are harder to make and require far more research and development than the mass-produced memory chips that Japanese firms have been turning out at prices Intel could not match. But the timing was spectacular and the results self-evident. CEO Andrew Grove's advice to companies eager to emulate that success: "You have to understand what it is that you are better at than anybody else and mercilessly focus your efforts...
...tapas include olives directly from a small grove in southern France and panisses, which are seasoned chick pea fries common in Spain...