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Buffeted by a chilling wind that funneled down the gorges of the Panjshir Valley in northeast Afghanistan, three horsemen urged their mounts up a rocky defile at a punishing trot. Traders and refugees walking the same path late last month could tell by the men's heavy field jackets and Soviet-made automatic rifles that they were officers of the mujahedin, the Afghan resistance fighters who now control the once fiercely contested valley. Few of the walkers bothered to look carefully at the sparsely bearded, intense face of the lead rider as he passed. Had they done so, they would...
...Democrats" he hoped to lure back through deliberate vagueness on certain issues. So tonight's appearance can, if Dukakis doesn't exploit it properly, backfire, and may very well determine whether Dukakis will have to kiss his Presidential ambitions good-bye or be able to step back on a path to the White House...
...three are pursuing a common path to their various aspirations. They are going to college, whether returning or enrolling for the first time. And although they may be older than some of their professors, that hardly makes them stand out in class. According to the College Board, more than 6 million students -- 45% of those enrolled in American college programs -- are 25 or older. The number of such students jumped 79% between 1969 and 1984. Within a decade, this new group of learners, 60% of whom are women and 70% of whom work full time, will make up a majority...
...trod a winding red path in our search for the old North End, the road that makes up the two-and-a-half mile Freedom Trail which wends its way through Boston and Charlestown, retracing the steps of those Great White Males who fought the American Revolution...
...tiny gas leak on a main engine to a slight scratch on a thruster rocket. Finally they seemed confident that only bad weather might postpone the shuttle's launch. Although launch day dawned bright and sunny, meteorologists warned that the high-altitude winds in the shuttle's flight path, normally unruly in the Cape Canaveral region during late September, had uncharacteristically died down. The problem: Discovery's computers had been programmed to maneuver the craft through strong, buffeting winds. "Imagine yourself leaning way forward into a stiff wind," explained Thomas Utsman, director of shuttle management and operations. "But suddenly...