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...always loved the way the wind feels whipping against her face and the thrill of the free fall before her parachute opens and carries her safely to the ground. She did her first jump in six years in March as part of the official celebration of Nawroz, the Afghan new-year holiday that the Taliban had banned. She was supposed to land in the Kabul stadium, but the helicopter mistakenly dropped her in a nearby field instead. Unfazed, she gathered up her parachute, hailed a battered old taxi and rode to the stadium, where a cheering crowd greeted...
...New-Year's calls...
...Gods. The hordes of New-Year worshipers will accurately measure the striking comeback made by one of the world's oldest-and at one time most ominous-religions. Vaguely animistic. Shinto (which means "the way of the gods") is based on a belief in the divine efficacy of Kami (deities). By worshiping the Kami -which include everything from a believer's ancestors to the wind and the trees...
After weighing such facts, Prudential Insurance Co. issued its usually accurate annual new-year prediction: 1958 will see a $3 billion dip in capital expenditures, but this will be offset by a rise of $5 billion in state spending and $1 billion in home building. Said President Carrol Shanks: business will hold at the present stable levels for the next six months, and then "the second half of the year is likely to be strong...
Starting off Harvard's half mid-term, half new-year registration today are 50 or so new members of the Class of '47, signing up in almost traditional style for their first term at College...