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...soil, but its own military is already in the game. A senior U.S. official told Time that Turkish officers are working closely with U.S. special forces now deployed in Kurdish-held areas of northern Iraq, and the arrangement is working for both sides. The U.S. learns the lay of the land from those familiar with it, while Turkey gets firsthand knowledge of the movements of potential Kurdish adversaries, as well as some goodwill from Washington. Turkish troops have good reasons for wanting to know what the Kurds are up to. A separatist guerrilla group is based in the craggy mountains...
...penguins have been sleeping less and skipping some meals but don't seem to have been harmed by all the exercise. In April, when the penguins are due to lay eggs, zookeepers will see if they have been skipping something else too. --By Jeffrey Kluger
...Everyone knew me at the monastery. Everyone was comfortable with me," he says. "And that made it relatively easy to do what I wanted." He consulted mo, an ancient divination system involving dice and beads, to make decisions about casting and shooting schedules and was careful to assure his lay Tibetan actors that they wouldn't suffer karmic retribution if the script called for them to rough up a monk for making too much noise during France vs. Brazil. The Cup picked up awards at the Pusan, Munich and Toronto film festivals and, according to the New York Times, established...
...hours of TV programs on internal hard discs and display them on 4-in. screens. The shows can be beamed to the players over a wireless Internet network. There's no price tag or release date yet, but Hollywood execs--already in a tizzy over TiVo--might want to lay in extra supplies of Tylenol...
...Three lay-ups by Cserny, a Peljto jumper and a three-pointer by freshman guard Jessica Holsey helped push Harvard’s lead to 56-41 with 10 minutes to play...