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...support for the war thickens and thins as events unfold. While polls showed that 68% of Americans were in favor of the invasion three years ago, that figure fell as what looked like a quick victory stalled, rose when Saddam was pulled from his spider hole, sank with the sickening pictures from Abu Ghraib, but then rose a bit again as Iraqis defied threats and went to the polls, setting an example for a region where free elections are about as common as leprechauns. In recent weeks the bombing of a Shi'ite shrine, the bodies dumped in shallow graves...
Even measures taken to protect wildlife can cause problems. The hole that created the new spill was located at one of dozens of caribou-crossing sites, where the pipeline is tucked in a culvert that helped shield the leak from view...
...side of the road, hidden below a field of snow, a massive slick of crude oil had spread over nearly two acres of tundra. An aging pipe, installed during the Ford Administration, had corroded from the inside and oozed oil out of an almond-size hole--a leak that went undetected for at least five days. None of the pipeline's alarms were tripped. In all, 201,000 gal. of crude escaped, making the spill the largest ever to hit Alaska's North Slope...
...into the opening frame while Harvard forward Liza Solley was sitting in the penalty box—the contest’s first special-teams situation. After Boe turned aside a number of chances directly in front of her, New Hampshire’s Jennifer Hicthcock finally found a hole in the Crimson netminder’s defense when she fired a puck through a screen and between Boe’s pads. Martine Garland and Sadie Wright-Ward assisted on the goal. Garland notched her own tally just three minutes later on a similar play. She shot from just...
...extra-skater opportunities. In its first three lifeless power plays, the Crimson was unable to hold the zone against fierce pressure from the Wildcats kill and failed to test New Hampshire netminder Melissa Bourdon with any tough chances until Wilson’s wrister beat her five-hole.“As good as we’ve been on power play,” Wildcats coach Brian McCloskey said, was “our penalty kill, I don’t know if anybody’s been better than us. We make it hard for teams...