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...Tehran. Khordadian, who had been living in the U.S. since 1981, had traveled to Iran to see his ailing father. Islamic hard-liners condemn dance as a sin and a crime, and the authorities have barred Khordadian from leaving the country. U.S. officials made no public comment. SENTENCED. IVAN NIKOLIC, 30, a former Yugoslav soldier, to eight years in prison for war crimes during the Kosovo war, in the first trial of its kind held in Serbia since President Slobodan Milosevic's ouster; in Prokuplje, Serbia. Nikolic pleaded not guilty, calling the proceedings a "political trial." MARRIED. KING MOHAMMED...
...based players. Nobody clocked more hours in the pro season than Spain's Real Madrid contingent: in addition to the closely contested domestic league, their club went the full distance in the Spanish King's Cup and the European Champions League. And yet, Madrid stars Raul, Fernando Hierro and Ivan Helguera were able to do the business in their national colors. Raul wasn't complaining of exhaustion after a grueling opening game against Slovenia in the humidity of Kwangju. The striker was hungry for more. "If we carry on working as hard as that, we can achieve something great...
Indeed, a lot of what researchers have learned about the biology of anxiety comes from scaring rats and then cutting them open. Just as the Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov showed 100 years ago that you could condition a dog to salivate at the sound of a bell, scientists today have taught rats to fear all kinds of things--from buzzers to lights--by giving them electrical shocks when they hear the buzzer or see the light. The animals quickly learn to fear the stimulus even in the absence of a shock. Then researchers destroy small portions of the rats' brains...
...Bears’ power attack is led by catcher Greg Metzger (.362, 8, 34). Metzger is the Ivy League equivalent of Ivan Rodriguez, a power hitting catcher with a cannon for an arm. Metzger is throwing out an impressive 35 percent of runners this season...
...hostile country. And earlier this month, the U.S. embassy in Moscow received an e-mail in broken English that read: "We are to kill all the foreigners we see, marking the birthday of Hitler [April 20]. Send your citizens back - or else. Russia is for Russians." It was signed: "Ivan, President, Skinhead Group of Russia." The embassy took the threat seriously enough to alert all Americans in Russia to the increased risk over the next several weeks...