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...told me a boy from my own village would drive the motorcycle, the first time I knew that he was part of the organization too." Having studied his target's movements for a week, Abdullah says he rode up behind two soldiers on a motorbike and shot the pillion rider in the back, killing him. The other soldier fired back, hitting Abdullah three times...
...inspiration to get yourself off the couch and into the gym? You may be in luck. British designer Stella McCartney has teamed up with Adidas on a new line of athleticwear for women. There's gear for running, swimming and training, with apparel prices ranging from $35 for low-rider swimsuit bottoms to $210 for a reversible warm-up jacket, all in McCartney's familiar palette of dusty pinks, shimmering grays and sandy yellows. The first collection hits Adidas sports shops and select Bloomingdale's and Nordstrom stores in February. So turn off the tube and get ready to sweat...
Ashley and I stand watching one young up-and-coming rider after another be hurled to the ground as a couple of older, stern-faced Secret Service types get a hold of the bull and lead it away. After one particularly gruesome disembarkment I’m informed that that stag is the “beginner” I’m slated to ride. Great...
...entrust my health and well-being to a 14-year-old rider named John, whose safety gear I will borrow after his ride. I lean on the eye-high fence to see him last an impressive 7 seconds (in competition, you need 8 to win) on a near-full-grown bull before being tossed off and landing on his head. He hands me his equipment and insists to his hovering cloud of pre-pubescent admirers that he is fine, but I catch him rubbing his head for several minutes afterward. The helmet I wear is his, and it?...
...follow John as he climbs up and over several rows of cattle fence to the pen where my beginner is waiting. Another John, the 7th-ranked bull rider in Australia, wraps thick tape around the wrist of my glove, as John the younger straddles the bull and helps a man who could be his father tie a rope around the bull’s flank. (This, Kimbo had explained, is what makes the bull buck, by irritating his genitals. I guess I’d be kicking and snorting...