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...easy to kill a full-grown tree - especially one like the piñon pine. The hardy evergreen is adapted to life in the hot, parched American Southwest, so it takes more than a little dry spell to affect it. In fact, it requires a once-in-a-century event like the extended drought of the 1950s, which scientists now believe led to widespread tree mortality in the Four Corners area of Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona...
...France, which has deployed commandos to rescue captive crews off Somalia. A French hostage-rescue effort on Friday resulted in the deaths of two pirates and one of the four people aboard a yacht that had been hijacked. But Phillips' dramatic rescue - which saw snipers on the U.S.S. Bainbridge kill the three pirates who held him hostage on a lifeboat 30 miles off the coast of Somalia - has significantly upped the ante with pirates who had previously not harmed hostages. (See pictures of the U.S.and the France fighting the Somali pirates...
...Navy operation. They threatened new attacks against America. "After the action they took yesterday, we will respond with action," Hassan Yare, 38, a pirate in the Somali city of Garad, tells TIME. "We're warning the owners of the other ships that if they try to attack, we will kill the crews and burn their ships." (See pictures of the brazen pirates of Somalia...
...away from a share of the league title, the Crimson remained relentless in the fourth frame. Despite getting in a 12-12 tie early on, Harvard took the lead for good after a kill to the right corner by Kuld put the team up, 22-17. A light tap by Jones to center court gave the Crimson its fifth straight win and the playoff spot Harvard had been gunning for since the beginning of the season...
...against him, a Venezuelan military tribunal acquitted him of the Cubana attack. That verdict was overturned, however, and in 1985, while Posada was being tried in a civilian criminal court, he escaped disguised as a priest. Posada and three other Cuban exiles were convicted in 2000 of conspiring to kill Fidel Castro during a summit in Panama. But four years later, inexplicably, then Panamanian President Mireya Moscoso pardoned the four men. (The Bush Administration denied that it had pressured her as a favor to Miami's politically powerful exile community...