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...just dropped," says Antoon. "I thought, Is this the Air Force Academy or Rocky Mountain Bible College?" For this and other reasons, Ryan passed up his all-expenses-paid congressional appointment to the academy and enrolled elsewhere...
...with which leads were pursued. According to several former employees of the U.S. embassy in Riyadh, the FBI legal attaché's office housed within the embassy was often in disarray during the months that followed 9/11. When an FBI supervisor arrived to clean up the mess, she found a mountain of paper and, for security reasons, ordered wholesale shredding that resulted in the destruction of unprocessed documents relating to the 9/11 investigations. A letter obtained by Time confirms that the Senate Judiciary Committee is investigating the matter...
...Warming will also cause reductions in mountain glaciers and advance the timing of the melt in snow peaks in polar regions." OMITTED SENTENCE, in a U.S. draft report on global warming. The sentence was part of a section crossed out by Philip Cooney, White House Council on Environmental Quality chief of staff (and former oil industry lobbyist), whose edit note says the section was "straying from research strategy into speculative findings...
...traveled is from his dirt-poor beginnings. His father battled to keep his family afloat in Medellín - now Colombia's second-largest city (and a center of the country's cocaine business), but an isolated backwater during the 1930s and 1940s - by riding mules over rutted mountain tracks and peddling household items to villagers. He died when Botero was just 4, leaving his widow and three sons in such dire poverty that "it was very hard for my mother to feed us," Botero says. At 15, young Botero began selling paintings of local matadors in a store near...
...attributes of a classic do-gooder. But here is where it starts to get interesting. Neither a troubled billionaire nor a brilliant scientist caught in an experiment gone wrong, Concrete has a secret past as Ronald Lithgow, a senatorial speechwriter. Captured by aliens while taking a remote mountain hike, he escaped, but only after having his brain transferred to a fantastical new body. Under the cover of being an experimental, government cyborg named Concrete, he lives as just another celebrity in L.A.'s freak show...