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While they managed to eat well days after the storm—steak and jambalaya—growing danger in the streets prompted the family to pull their two SUVs out of a French Quarter garage at 8 a.m. Thursday...
...eventually started carrying my strappy leather contraptions to and from work every day. Certainly this arrangement was more comfortable, but that didn’t stop me from feeling hopelessly out of it in the elevator every morning. Inevitably, I’d pull up to a corner only to find I’d parked my flip flops next to a smart set of Manolo Blahniks. I could feel every eye in the elevator staring with pity down at me and would shrink in provincial shyness against the wall...
...will stay the course," Bush declared last week from his Texas ranch as he began a month's vacation. "We will complete the job in Iraq." Still, Administration officials hit the phones all week long to reassure the factions in Iraq that the U.S. is not going to pull out before Iraqi security forces are ready to take over...
...will be done. When the insurgency came to life in the months after the March 2003 invasion, the President vowed that U.S. forces would not withdraw until the rebels were crushed. But U.S. officials now believe that every province does not need to be completely pacified before U.S. troops pull out. In the past three months, the Pentagon has concluded that the war against the insurgents "is not winnable in the near term," says Seth Jones, an Iraq expert at the Rand Corp. Pentagon officers have been reviewing other insurgencies' histories, which indicate that the rebels take, on average, nine...
...shuttle in flight with remote cameras. And while the dislodged foam caused much consternation at the space agency, Discovery had the least loss of foam when compared to the other shuttle launches. Still, the first-ever space walk to the underside of the shuttle was deemed necessary to pull cloth from between tiles, again to err on the side of caution. And despite the smaller amount of foam debris hits, NASA admits that the largest chunk to fall could have been equally disastrous had it hit the shuttle's wing or a heat-shielding tile elsewhere on the craft...