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...that's in summer. The highest wind speed ever recorded on Earth was clocked here, in 1934, at an almost unbelievable 231 m.p.h. (a hurricane qualifies as a Category 5, the most severe, at a mere 156 m.p.h.). When I spent a day at the South Pole a few years ago, you could bundle up and walk around outside with relative comfort. Not here...
...That makes the Feb. 11 briefing by U.S. military officials in Baghdad--detailing Iran's alleged link to the carnage shredding U.S. troops in Iraq--all the odder. Cameras, recorders and cell phones were barred from the Green Zone session. Three U.S. officials anonymously made the case that the "highest levels" of the Iranian government have been directing the deployment of explosively formed penetrators (EFPs) and other weapons in Iraq. The EFPs, they said, have killed 170 U.S. troops since...
...almost certain also-ran who will still be chairing, say, the Senate Banking Committee long after the election is over. Hence the nifty $3,422,982 that Senator Chris Dodd--the Democrat from Connecticut who oversees that key Senate panel--socked away in the last quarter of 2006, the highest of any announced presidential candidate...
...five of seven, including three straight. This weekend is also significant as it is the last chance for Julie Chu to make her case for the Patty Kazmaier Award, for which she is a finalist. The Kazmaier Award is given to the woman who “displays the highest standards of personal and team excellence during the season.” Chu, whose unselfish play is reflected in her remarkable goals to assist ratio (16 goals to 42 assists) leads the nation in points per game at 2.38. She described being a finalist as “a great...
...freshman guard Drew Housman, who had not faced so rough a collegiate crowd up to that point. This year, however, Housman is a year older and is coming off the best performance of his career in a Harvard uniform. At Princeton on Friday, he scored 33 points, the 12th highest total in team history, in a 74-68 double-overtime loss and is ready to ride that momentum into tonight’s game...