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Stricker, who also won handily at Heps, covered the five-kilometer course in 17:11, seven seconds ahead of second-place finisher Stacia Prey of Penn State, and 28 seconds in front of Boston University's Lisa Welch, who beat out Stricker at the Greater Boston Championships earlier in the season. All three runners qualified for the NCAA meet...
...other was an investigation into the standoff between the U.S. and the Italian military at the Sigonella NATO base, where the EgyptAir Boeing first landed. Local police reported that tensions between the two allies turned ugly when the U.S. special Delta Force saw its prey being taken from it. Nevertheless, the clash never went beyond raised voices. Said Craxi Envoy Antonio Badini, who negotiated the surrender of the four terrorists to Italian authorities: "Abbas' role appeared to us of secondary significance." More important, he said, "was our respect for international law, our relations with Egypt...
...canary lady" who never leaves her empty birdcages, an enormously fat opera singer, a blind black man with at least seven senses, and Mr. Shapeshade, the owner of an obsolete cinema with one word on the marquee: GOODBYE. They and other harmless old creatures are the apparent prey of Mr. Lonely Death, "a happy child in the fields of the Antichrist." With the aid of a local detective who would rather be writing novels, the narrator winnows a weird field of suspects and runs the killer to earth, or in this case sand. Thereupon "all the souls...
...travels through the bloodstream in round bundles of fat and protein called lipoproteins. Like Venus's-flytraps, vacant LDL receptors snare the passing packets. The lipoproteins are rapidly broken down in the cell, and the cholesterol is freed for use, while the receptor returns to the membrane, ready for prey...
...clear Tuesday morning when the eight sleek warplanes peeled off over the faintly ruffled waters of the Gulf of Tunis in the western Mediterranean. They were a long way from home, and they wasted little time. While the others hovered high over the sea like watchful birds of prey, the first two jets swooped down on the beach, so low that startled and incredulous bystanders on the shore could pick out the Star of David on the planes' flashing silver tails. A volley of bombs and missiles streaked into a cluster of sand-colored buildings squatting among palms and pine...