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...ran into the Lebanese soldiers who had been guarding the previous checkpoint. It should have been members of a Christian battalion, which were our allies, but the night before they were replaced by Shi'a soldiers. Still, we felt safe to be captured by the Lebanese...
...That is, unless you're Joe Biden and 2008 is your last shot at the presidency. The longtime Delaware Senator, who ran for President during the 1988 campaign but dropped out before the Iowa caucuses after admitting he borrowed parts of a speech from a member of the British Parliament, is having one more go at the top job, and he's doing it boldly, following nobody's rules but his own. "The other guys are allegedly making up their minds," Biden told TIME last week." I've been around too long to be coy. My objective...
...center for biotechnology with research hubs in St. Louis, Kansas City and Columbia, last year was instrumental in putting on the ballot a proposed constitutional amendment that would prevent the legislature from blocking stem-cell research. The move, which attracted a record $16 million from biotechnology advocates, ran up against one of the strongest state pro-life movements in the country. It should come as no surprise, then, that the fight has spilled over into what is shaping up to be a tight Senate race between Republican incumbent Jim Talent and Democratic state auditor Claire McCaskill, one of the contests...
Rice announced before heading off to Israel and Lebanon last week that she was not after "a temporary solution," much to the consternation of Arab and European allies of the U.S. The New York Times ran a vivid front-page photo of Rice, eyes closed, holding her head as if in despair. In fact, she was wiping off perspiration that was pouring down her forehead in a broiling conference room in Rome. (The hall normally seats about 100 people but was packed with 1,000; firefighters showed up to remove doors to cool the place down.) Her goal is grander...
...Noor Hashem, 13, a niece of Abbas Hashem, speaking from a bed in the government-run hospital in Tyre, six miles northwest of Qana. Noor, who wears a brown headscarf, says she had been sleeping beside her older sister Zeinab and a cousin. They fled the shattered building and ran to her aunt's house nearby where they waited six hours before the rescue services could reach them. Her mother went to look for her three brothers - Mahdi, 7, Jaafar, 12, and Abbas, nine months - and Noor says she has not seen them since. She begins crying and cannot continue...