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Junior forward Nick D'Onofrio netted his fourth goal of the season Saturday and senior midfielder Ramy Rajballie earned the assist to give both nine points and a boost to the top of the standings. D'Onofrio and Rajballie join junior midfielder Paul Baverstock, who has been holding steady with three goals and three assists (nine points) for the past three weeks...
...Patriots, who lost their last meeting with the Bears, 46-10, in the 1986 Super Bowl, became the first team in six games to score more than nine points against Chicago, the NFL's top defense. The Bears (7-2) had a five-game winning streak stopped in which they allowed just 32 points...
Ahmad Shah Massoud, 35, a onetime engineering student at the Soviet Polytechnic Institute in Kabul, has spent the past nine years molding the mujahedin in Afghanistan's northeast into what is widely considered the country's most effective guerrilla formation. Last May Massoud's men, who owe allegiance to Jamiat-i-Islami, one of the seven mujahedin parties based across the border in Pakistan, watched in triumph as the last Soviet and Afghan government troops retreated from the Panjshir...
...After nine years of fighting, mujahedin can drive their few vehicles through the valley in daylight with little worry of attack. The government withdrawal from the Panjshir has prompted hopes in Kabul that Massoud might be coaxed into a cease-fire or even a coalition. According to Massoud, President Najibullah has even offered him a choice of top government posts in exchange for peace...
Last summer's drought has produced not only a stunted harvest but also a toxic side effect: a bumper crop of aflatoxin, a fungus-based, cancer-causing corn contaminant. It has turned up in livestock feed corn (although not the sweet corn so dear to the American palate) in nine major corn-producing states. The Illinois Department of Agriculture says a third of the crop samples tested show aflatoxin above permissible levels. But by blending the current crop with grain from uncontaminated past harvests, the corn can be used. Moreover, the Food and Drug Administration has cleared...