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...Conquer Though Frenchman Michel Desjoyeaux won the solo Vend?e Globe Round the World yacht race, Britain's tiny (1.57 m tall) Ellen MacArthur earned the loudest cheers. Her gutsy 94-day voyage drew a crowd of 200,000 to the Sables d'Olonne finish line in France to hail the youngest - she's 24 - and the quickest woman ever to complete the race...
...from Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority moved in to surround the Gaza City home of Sheik Ahmed Yassin, founder and spiritual leader of the movement whose name means zeal, calls rang from the loudspeakers of local mosques, "Go and rescue Sheik Yassin!" The security men were greeted with a hail of stones and occasional gunfire from several thousand defiant Hamas loyalists determined to show Arafat, just like Israel, how much they have become a force to be reckoned with...
Nuclear detonations release a hail of charged particles, common among them radioactive iodine. This is bad news for the human thyroid, which soaks up iodine like a sponge. One way to prevent the problem is to dose the body with potassium iodide, which saturates the gland and prevents the nastier form of the stuff from being absorbed. It's simple--but of limited value. First, little if any iodine is given off by a so-called dirty bomb--radioactive waste wrapped around a conventional explosive--which is the device a terrorist would be most likely to manage. Second, even...
...Spanish investigators consider it "curious," one of them told Time, that six of the eight men under indictment hail from Aleppo, the ancient Syrian city about which Atta wrote his urban planning dissertation and which he visited at least once...
Advancing under a hail of fire on Monday afternoon, Alliance troops scaled the walls and ran to within a few yards of the building. From there, they fired a barrage of grenades in through the windows. After a few hours of fierce fighting, Alliance soldiers soaked the outside walls of the school with gasoline and ignited it. "The fires burned all night," says a local resident. "I could see them from my house. We all shouted at the Pakistanis to surrender." Adds Zaki: "We were able to kill or injure most of them. I don't know why they kept...