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...Reno, Nevada, again facing Strickland, he had produced one of the most memorable shots on record. "Earl left him on the end rail totally tied up behind the nine ball," recalls Helfert, the tournament director. "It looked like there was no possible way for him to hit the object ball, which I think was the eight. Efren looked at it for a while, then he kicked the cue two rails back and forth across the table, hit the edge of the eight, made the eight, got position on the nine and ran out and won the match...
...airport-security measures passed by the U.S. Congress will do little to improve the situation in the short run [AIRLINE SAFETY, Nov. 26]. One quick solution would be to provide a monetary incentive to security screeners for each and every bomb, knife and other dangerous object found. Federal supervisors could verify the found objects, and bonuses would be based on the number of weapons found. Although funding would be required, the cost could be more than justified by screeners highly motivated to do a better job. It should provide an immediate security improvement, even before more qualified security personnel...
...Zaman's fellow Afghan commanders were outraged, while U.S. officials appeared shocked. The Americans did not object to an al-Qaeda surrender, but any surrender had to be unconditional. As for the cease-fire, Air Force General Richard Myers, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, simply ignored it. "Just for the record," said Myers, "our military mission remains to destroy the al-Qaeda and the Taliban networks. So our operation from the air and the ground will continue until our mission is accomplished...
...driver's license that when they die, they want their organs to be made available. Many European and Asian countries take the opposite approach; in Singapore, for example, all residents receive a letter when they come of age informing them that their organs may be harvested unless they explicitly object. In Belgium, which adopted a similar presumed-consent system 12 years ago, less than 2% of the population has decided...
...kosher dining station,” which is unquestionably an expression of religious observance. Can I assume that Shira Kieval, who feels so strongly that no student should “be forced to choose between eating and being in the same room with a religious object,” supports the removal of these stations...