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...hunt for the Beltway sniper, one intriguing clue was a spent shell casing found outside the middle school. Like a spent slug, a casing can help narrow down the type of gun that may have been used. So far, ballistics tests have not pinpointed the sniper's weapon. But investigators appear particularly interested in individuals known to possess a Colt AR-15, the civilian version of the M-16 infantry rifle, or a Sturm-Ruger Mini-14 rifle. Both are semiautomatic rifles, popular with target shooters, criminals and some domestic extremist groups...
...best new feature in MSN 8 is the Dashboard, a narrow, vertical window that snaps to the right-hand side of your screen and gives you at-a-glance views of the things you most want to see, like stock prices, weather reports and which of your buddies are online. All the content on the Dashboard is customizable; you can even add a personal photo and your own Web links. AOL 8 has something similar called AOL Companion, but because of its awkward design and the way it floats on top of the page, it just gets...
...After a narrow escape from death, the future looked bright for Baba, a young Iberian lynx in the Coto Doñana National Park in southwest Spain. Last April, he was rescued from an illegal poacher's trap and nursed back to health, despite badly injured feet and legs. Then in July, he was released into the wild, outfitted with a radio collar to monitor his movements. But just weeks later, the radio signals stopped. A local park warden believes that Baba was killed, probably by a hunter keen for such a rare trophy. For centuries, the Iberian lynx...
...children eagerly led us the rest of the way. After crossing a narrow footbridge, our family’s former hut emerged from a dense thicket of lychee trees. It was a modest brown and green construction that Ông Ngoai had built himself. He weaved chutes of bamboo together for the walls; he bound thatch together for the roof. The floor was smoothed dirt covered by scratchy mats and the bed was flattened bamboo draped with scraps of cloth. A black and white picture of him sat on the altar to the left of his bed, his image...
...tough course in pleasant weather, the narrow fairways of the Links at Gettysburg were compounded with the obstacle of standing water...