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...explosion was so powerful it was heard several miles away, and its reverberations would eventually travel around the globe. The car was nearing its destination, the al-Falah Mosque in the Pakistani frontier city of Peshawar, when it hit the land mine. All four passengers in the vehicle--a father with his two young sons and another youth--were killed. Chief among the dead that Friday was Sheik Abdullah Azzam, 48. It was the second attempt on his life. Earlier in 1989 a bomb was planted beneath the pulpit of a mosque where he was supposed to preach and pray...
...young British scientist at CERN, a high-energy physics lab in Geneva, and he had a radical new way for scientists to share data by linking documents to one another over the Internet. He had kicked around a few different names for it, including the "Infomesh" and the "Information Mine." But he wasn't getting much interest from his bosses. His proposal came back with the words "vague but exciting" written across the cover...
...Devil Docs had already moved forward with the first advance, so to catch up with them we rode in the bed of an open 7-ton truck-lined with sandbags in case we hit a mine-for 17 hours. Their base, Camp Viper, in south-central Iraq, had a team of 44 medical personnel, including doctors, nurses, medics and corpsmen. I toured the two 40-ft. by 40-ft. operating tents, each reinforced with two layers of tent canvas and a solid floor. They were clean and sanitary, as any operating room should...
...Wendell] is a good friend of mine and I’m excited that she’ll be able to come back and play in the Frozen Four,” said freshman Julie Chu, one of Wendell’s U.S. national teammates. “I hate to see her injured and I hate to see her missing games. I’m excited I’ll get to play against her because we want them to have all their best players when we’re going to face them...
...doing. But I want him to come home and act as if nothing is going on in that part of the world. I am proud that my husband is willing to fight for what is right. It was his choice to join the military, and it is mine to support him. KRISTEN RYAN Fort Benning...