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...battle rages, fierce and bloody, perhaps the heaviest fighting northern Iraq has seen so far in this war. U.S. special forces are here, along with their Kurdish allies, facing down Ansar al-Islam, the diehard terrorist group based in Kurdish-controlled Iraq that the Americans believe is linked to al-Qaeda. "There are three or four isolated pockets of Ansar on very high ground. We're closing in on them from everywhere we can," says an American commando named Mark, who declines to give his rank or surname. The fire coming down from the craggy peak is torrid. Machineguns rattle...
...anything (except gas); their defense is mostly carried out in sedate op-eds. After enduring months of attacks, pro-SUV forces cheered last month when it was disclosed that the Bush Administration wants to increase a tax break allowing small businesses to deduct much of the price of the heaviest SUVs from their taxes--even when those SUVs won't be hauling anything more than the boss and his morning Starbucks...
...turned out to be the largest commercial child-porn operation ever uncovered. In September 1999 law-enforcement officials raided the operators' house and seized their computers, which held information on about 250,000 paying subscribers worldwide. Postal inspectors, who arrested about 120 of the heaviest users in the U.S., forwarded the Landslide information to Interpol headquarters in Lyons, France. Interpol in turn identified buyers in 60 countries, including 7,272 in Britain. Some 1,200 have been arrested there so far, including Townshend...
While sports fans are disproportionately young men—also the heaviest drinking demographic—Wechsler said, “they are also targeted by the alcohol industry through advertising and through special drink promotions...
...coastal storm is expected to hit southern New England hardest, dumping snow and sleet on Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts, while northern New England is expected to escape with only rain. The heaviest precipitation will fall between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m., tapering off through the day and early this evening...