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...plaint, "How Deep Is the Ocean?"). Then a Berlin associate let megaphone man Rudy Vallee perform it on his radio show. The song was a #1 hit for George Olsen and awarded top-10 perches to versions by Connee Boswell and Ozzie Nelson?s band. In her pop-diva phase, Aretha Franklin had a minor flurry with her single of the song in 1963 - 31 years later...
...Which brings us to Phase II of the war. Bush, looking to go anywhere but Iraq next, is thinking about Somalia - not a lot of pleasant associations there - and Yemen and the Sudan. Maybe Americans will take to those fights like they've taken to the strikes in Afghanistan, but the folks at home aren't exactly known for their long attention spans. This time, there'll be no nasty, women-repressing Taliban for a PR stalking horse, and no bearded, live-on-tape OBL devil to focus the will. And there are no ready-made rebels...
Relations between the United States and Russia seem to be entering a new phase. While cooperating in the war against terrorism, the countries are still at odds over issues like the ABM Treaty and the proposed U.S. missile defense shield...
...insists they'll be brought to justice, but many Americans had expected to see the moment come before Christmas. Despite America's dramatic successes - destroying the Taliban regime and al-Qaeda's infrastructure, killing hundreds if not thousands of its fighters and closing down Afghanistan as a terrorist refuge - Phase 1 of the Bush administration's war on terrorism may be taken as only a partial victory as long as bin Laden remains at large. This even though the Pentagon had warned from the beginning that conventional military force could destroy the Taliban regime but could not guarantee the elimination...
...Oscillation or the northern hemisphere annular mode--involves atmospheric-pressure changes over the northernmost part of the globe, from about 55[degrees] latitude on up, according to Colorado State University's David Thompson and the University of Washington's John M. Wallace. When the AO is in a positive phase--that is, pressure at the core of the region is low--a ring of wind that swirls around the North Pole increases in strength and keeps the frigid Arctic air from escaping southward out of the vortex. That means warmer than usual weather in most of the northern hemisphere...