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...order to pay off this semester, Murray’s family has sold 40 acres of their soybean farm. Worse still, Murray has watched her parents’ relationship deteriorate. “I’m always on the lookout for marital strain.” Last weekend Murray’s parents drove from Michigan to talk to her. “They told me we have no money left. How can I not work hard in school when my family is losing its farm? I feel like I should be selling my eggs or something. It?...
...anything unusual or alarming, Bush said, in the hope that 280 million investigators have a better chance of foiling the next plot. But we are not trained for this, and an unmarked catering truck on a quiet street prompts three different neighbors to call the cops. "Be on the lookout for mysterious health symptoms," said health czar Tommy Thompson, but who doesn't have those? We were told last week not to panic but to be prepared; to get on with our lives, even though we barely recognize them now that there are F-16s overhead and National Guardsmen...
...refugees flood across from Afghanistan. And Pakistan will soon find itself scrambling to find a new proxy in Kabul to compete with the Russian-backed Northern Alliance for influence in a post-Taliban Afghanistan. General Musharraf's recent reshuffle of his generals suggests he's also on the lookout for any backlash from within the military. The U.S., too, will keep close watch, knowing that ownership of an undisclosed number of nuclear warheads may hang in the balance...
...streamlined system for enforcing immigration policy, many advocate a closer (and better-funded) working relationship between the counter-terrorism units at the FBI and CIA and INS border patrols. Two of the 19 terrorists involved in the attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center were reportedly on a "lookout list" circulating the intelligence community; unfortunately, that list never made it into the hands of the right INS border patrols...
...confrontation brewing? One young reveler reaches into his car and turns up his stereo. The voice of Elephant Man, the latest local ragga star, blares out, heavy with attitude and thick with patois: "Badman nah run from police inna shootout/Whole crew a government see dem pon di lookout..." The youth smiles at the cops and keeps dancing...