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...wing it with the facts, former college debater Perino is detailed and careful, qualities that often go unnoticed by the general public but are prized by reporters on deadline who need a quick and reliable source of specifics. And she has retained the easygoing self-confidence of the Rocky Mountain West, where she grew up spending summers and holidays at her grandparents' cattle ranch in Wyoming. Her delivery has none of Ari Fleischer's arrogance or Scott McClellan's anxiety. Many of her predecessors came from the antagonistic world of national campaigns, but Perino made her way to the West...
...southern section of Virunga where the gorillas reside is strategically important to the rebels; the area was also attacked in January, when rebels allegedly killed then ate two of the silverbacks - a shocking act since conservationists say that mountain gorillas are usually not eaten. A total of 10 gorillas are known to have been killed this year, including a female gorilla killed execution-style. Two gorillas are still missing...
...flared up again in the chaotic Democratic Republic of the Congo and the endangered mountain gorillas are in the crossfire. Only 700 mountain gorillas, the males known for their moonlit silver-haired backs, exist. More than half live in Virunga National Park, a conservation area in eastern Congo that stretches into bordering Uganda and Rwanda. But last weekend rebels loyal to the dissident Congolese general Laurent Nkunda, took over the last protected section of the gorilla habitat in the park, raising questions over the fate of this last known population of the great apes. "The rangers were forced to flee...
Player and Nicklaus are also playing the real estate side of the fairways. Gary Player Estates is a gated enclave of 100 homes in the $4 million range within the already gated enclave of the Cliffs at Mountain Park. Nicklaus Manor at the Concession Golf Club in Bradenton, Fla., will feature 33 homes, from $2 million. "There are certain people for whom money is no object," says Ken Costanzo, president of Gary Player Real Estate. "Their only concern is getting the right house in the right place." Say, Tiger's place...
...Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 25th Division, said the locally organized Sunni groups have already driven al-Qaeda out of the urban areas and into a rough no-man's land to the north, sandwiching them precariously between his paratroopers and elements of the 10th Mountain Division. In and around Musayyib to the south, the Shi'ite groups have manned checkpoints along roadways that once hid bombs. Since late July, roughly about the time the militias started working, no one has attacked the paratroopers there...