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...sprint, high jump, shot put and long jump. In June she moved outdoors to Tallinn, Estonia, where she scored 6,692 points beating reigning Olympic champion, Denise Lewis, to bring her ever closer to the senior record. There's little doubt that Kluft is Olympic-gold material, and her rapid progress will ensure a stellar show in Athens. But she is keeping her feet on the ground (figuratively if not literally). After the Tallinn win she told journalists, "I'm nothing special. I'm not a star, just someone doing something I enjoy." And letting the world know what...
...showed how a B-1 dropped four satellite-guided bombs in Baghdad's Mansur District that targeted Saddam Hussein and at least one of his sons. The graphic prompted an e-mail from Kevin Cox, a computer technician who works on the B1s at Ellsworth Air Force Base near Rapid City, S.D., The crew enjoyed the graphic and asked for some reprints. I said yes. Then I asked Kevin if he could arrange for me to hitch a ride. To my surprise, the folks at Ellsworth said maybe...
...until I persuaded them to read the first book," wrote a Floridian. "Guess what? They were all addicted immediately." Sharing the Pottermania were two friends from Nebraska, "both well over 50 and great H.P. fans." They proudly declared that they drove "100-plus miles to a bookstore in Rapid City, S.D., for the 12:01 a.m. release of Book 5." And an Arizona man wrote, "If everyone under 18 were to disappear from the face of the earth, the newest Potter book would still sell 3 million copies, including...
...nurture a network of operatives that eventually stretched as far down East Africa as Malawi, and which has struck more than once with devastating effect. But the U.S. has sharply stepped up its intelligence operations in East Africa and has stationed 1,500 Marines in Djibouti as a rapid-reaction force. While East Africa is now a known theater of operations, West Africa offers a broad new range of opportunities - as Osama bin Laden pointed out in February, when in a taped message he singled out Nigeria as a country ripe for "liberation" by his followers. Nigeria could be fertile...
...need to expand the U.S. security presence in Africa - the administration is already discussing creating skeletal military bases in North and West Africa to complement the Marine facility at Djibouti and expand U.S. capacity for rapid reaction to crises - may tip the Administration in favor of committing some resources to a Liberia mission. Britain did its bit by sending troops to its former colony in Sierra Leone and staying there until the rebellion was crushed; France did the same for its former colony in Ivory Coast; and now there's pressure on the U.S. to tackle the problem in Liberia...