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...NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION: "The A.Q. Khan network has been brought to justice...
...fact, Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf pardoned Abdul Qadeer Khan the day after the Pakistani scientist publicly admitted to selling nuclear secrets to Libya, Iran and North Korea. Khan remains under house arrest, but nearly all his associates are free. The U.S. has not gained access to Khan to figure out what he sold to whom...
...Shireen Khan, 19, in running pants, a plain white shirt, Reeboks and a lavender hijab, was waiting in line for the Nitro with two female friends. She pooh-poohed the notion that the day's event might be a kind of refuge for an overscrutinized community. "It's not about that," she said. "I come here twice a year, and I like it, but today there's good halal food, and there's prayer. We have so many friends in the tristate area, we never see each other, and today everybody's here." Her cousin Soofia Tahir suspected there might...
...eventually they did. Higher and higher their car climbed--230 ft. and then 85 m.p.h. free fall. Khan's hijab flapped but held. "It was good," she exclaimed at the ride's exit. "I'd never been on a roller coaster at night before. When you open your eyes, there was just, like ... nothing!" She smiled broadly. Then she made her way to the ladies' room, ritually washed her hands, face, arms and feet and found a small group of other women by the Ferris wheel. Turned into silhouettes by its dazzling illumination, they prayed...
...better gymnastics." Mongolia's Otgonbayar, too, hoped her last-place finish might spur on more marathoners in her native land. "Our country is very big," she says. "We have lots of space to train for the marathon." Motion doesn't get any more triumphal than the descendants of Genghis Khan racing through the grasslands, in pursuit of the true Olympic spirit...