Word: orlandos
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...organization in Sudan and Afghanistan after receiving flight training (as long ago as 1993) at the same Oklahoma school where Zacarias Moussaoui, the alleged terrorist who was detained before the Sept. 11 attacks, studied last year. Ali later returned to the U.S. and worked as a cabdriver in Orlando, Fla. He was arrested after the al-Qaeda bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa in 1998 but clammed up. Indicted for perjury, Ali has been detained ever since. If he is talking now, he could shed some much needed light on the early days of al-Qaeda's international campaigns...
...cancer specialists from around the world gather this week in Orlando, Fla., for the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, a new sense of optimism is in the air. It's not that cancer has been cured--there are too many different types of malignancies to hope for a universal treatment. Rather, it's that doctors are beginning to piece together new strategies for keeping cancer from recurring and, in some cases, preventing it from taking root in the first place. As ASCO president Dr. Larry Norton puts it, "Cancer is not a bolt of lightning...
...trek down I-95 to Orlando, dotted with the franchise culture of McDonald’s and Comfort Inns, is neither spontaneous nor original. The road trip should not be a means of getting to your vacation spot, but a vacation in itself...
DIED. LOU THESZ, 86, wrestling champion of the 1940s and '50s who competed in 6,000 matches over seven decades; in Orlando, Fla. Known as a hooker--a master of the sport's most complex and dangerous moves--Thesz was critical of gimmicky antics. "I'm a wrestler," he said, "not a wrassler, not a clown...
...Shaq’s Lakers. Shaq would be his usual 30-10 self, but the rest of the Lakers would struggle in countering the relentless on-the-ball pressure of the Bulls defenders. Although it would not be nearly as dominating as their sweep of the Shaq & Penny-led Orlando Magic during the 1996 Eastern Conference Finals, the Bulls would beat the Lakers in six games, as the ultimate intangible, Michael Jordan, would perform his usual theatrics...