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...triggers, weapon housings and everything else he needs to build a nuclear device--except for a sufficient supply of weapons-grade enriched uranium. Intelligence indicates that he is angling to obtain some on the international black market, but it's not something that your friendly neighborhood arms smuggler can lay hands on right away. So Saddam also is working to enrich his own uranium. That's a major technological challenge, but Iraq is expected to succeed within three to six years, at its current rate of progress...
...last time we faced her we couldn’t lay off her up pitch,” Allard said. “So every out we had was popped to first base, popped to second base. Today, we were determined to swing at good pitches...
...Hawaii. Like all high-stakes sporting events, the final episode last Thursday, in which Michel picked between the two remaining contestants, kicked off with a one-hour preshow--in this one, the 23 women thwarted in their quest to become Mrs. Michel reunited to offer their commentary and lay odds on which finalist would take home the championship ring. Michel, whose sincerity seemed as thin as his hair gel is thick, sent Trista Rehn, a dancer for the Miami Heat, packing, leaving only AMANDA MARSH, 23, a breast-enhanced, doe-eyed events planner from Chanute, Kan. Though cameras recorded Michel...
...hair. (Today, it's shoulder length.) In 1994, a power outage cut short a show and fans rioted. Zaw Win Htut was blamed and forbidden to play publicly for six months. His fellow rockers get similar treatment. They adapt, or stop performing. In the mid-'90s, musician Lay Phyu somehow slipped past the censors an album titled Power 54?a subtly subversive reference to Suu Kyi, who lives at 54 University Avenue. The number was dropped from the title after authorities caught on and ordered a recall. Another band plays Twisted Sister's tune We're Not Gonna Take...
...Htut has likewise sterilized more controversial parts of his work?thus avoiding the fate of Par Par Lay, a well-known comedian who in 1996 received a seven-year prison sentence for satirizing the country's ruling generals. Not everyone is willing to bend. Mun Awng, a popular musician in Burma in the 1980s, left the country in 1988 after participating in a wave of antigovernment demonstrations. From Thailand, he released an album titled Battle for Peace, and activists sang his songs while facing down the military in 1996 street protests. He now lives in Norway, performing occasionally for Burmese...