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Five minutes into its launch, the California rocket will release its mock warhead. The accompanying balloon will quickly inflate to its 6-ft.-plus diameter. Traveling less than a mile away from the mock warhead, the balloon is supposed to lure the interceptor away from its intended target. The warhead and the balloon, along with the container in which they rode into space, will reach a top speed of 14,700 m.p.h. and a peak altitude nearly 1,000 miles above the earth...
...rides organized by charities and bike clubs all over the U.S. These rolling events provide measured fun, challenge and physical and psychological support for riders and can raise substantial sums of money for causes such as AIDS, diabetes and MS. Most offer distance options: there's the classic 100-mile century, the 50-mile half-century, the grueling 200-mile double century and, for the internationalist, the 62-mile (or 100-km) metric century...
...neck. The youth wrapped his shirt around the wound and crawled back to Mexico in 115[degree]F heat. "I thought I was going to die in the desert. There wasn't a single tree for shade," says Palafox. Once across the Mexican border, Palafox dragged himself another mile before reaching a farmhouse, where he got help. The two riders have yet to be found...
Along the 80-mile stretch of border in Arizona's Cochise County, there have been 25 incidents since April 1999 in which armed private citizens rounded up dozens of suspected illegals. Most of these actions involved rancher Barnett and his brother Donald, 54, who patrol a 22,000-acre spread about four miles from the Mexican border. It's mesquite country, with sparse grass and sandy creeks that are perfect trails for the coyotes and their clients, who pay $800 apiece to reach Phoenix, $1,500 to Chicago. Along the way, says Roger Barnett, they cut fences...
...Marlboros and jokes, his brown eyes devilishly twinkling, "I guess I shouldn't smoke before jogging, eh?" Outside the city, we stop on a country lane as an unmarked security car that has been following us at a discreet distance pulls up. Then we are off for the five-mile run, the King slowing his pace and shortening his circuit in kindness to an older, nonjogging journalist. "I don't even like running that much," he says, gabbing as he glides along. "But it's good for stress." Listening to my huffing, he adds, "You know, it's important...