Word: postcarded
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...wanted criminals. None had terrorist ties, but two were accused murderers and one was an alleged international jewel thief. Though the Sept. 11 hijackers took pains to enter this country initially on legal visas, it seems unlikely that any self-respecting al-Qaeda operative will send a "just moved" postcard to the INS. Even some officials within the agency are tempering their hopes. "There's a way around any system," says one. "None of them is foolproof." --By Jodie Morse. With reporting by Elaine Shannon/Washington
...right holes. As they cannot think, they cannot be impressed; they are clods. The only way to beat their system is to cheat.) In the humanities and social sciences, it is well to remember, there is a man (occasionally a woman), a human type filling out your picture postcard. What does he want to read? How, in a word, can he be snowed...
Even the most casual photographer, armed with one of those disposable happy-snappers, would be hard-pressed to take a bad picture here. We are talking postcard quality every time. As the sun bursts over the horizon, the mountain's jagged silhouette looms dramatically against the dawn's fiery palette. Innumerable hues of pink, red and orange are splashed about the sky, and are gently reflected on the cotton wool kingdom arrayed below...
...also drew a personal postcard from Harvard Coach Joe Walsh. That—combined with a positive recruiting visit—lured San Salvador to Cambridge...
DIED. DEAN BUMPUS, 89, oceanographer who littered the Atlantic with tens of thousands of bottles to study the ocean's currents; in Woods Hole, Mass. He asked seabound friends and strangers to dump overboard boxfuls of bottles--each with a note asking its finder to send a postcard with the place and date of its discovery, in exchange for 50 [cents]. The project helped track weather and fish patterns; postcards are still coming...