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...about to shoot at a legless cartoon soldier-a black shape in the middle of a yellow square 200 m away. But first I need to center him in my rifle's sights. I've managed to get the ring of the front sight to sit just inside the slightly larger ring of the rear sight. Now I shift my stance, trying to make the the thin black post in the front sight touch the center of the soldier's belt. The rifle is heavy, and the sight picture-the relationship of rings, aiming post and target-won't stay...
DIED. Kay Noble-Bell, 65, fierce, feminine star wrestler of the 1960s and '70s; of stomach cancer; in Amarillo, Texas. Known for gravity-defying leaps in the ring to evade such opponents as Gladys (Kill 'Em) Gillem, Noble-Bell wrestled her first match at 18 and competed for 30 years...
...advantages of gridlock: the networks get to cast themselves as constitutional martyrs, the Christian Coalition is able to behave self-righteously, and the FCC is allowed to engage in a little political grandstanding. The only losers are the viewers, who would undoubtedly rather watch TV than this three-ring media circus...
...annals of identity theft, this may be hard to beat: after a two-year investigation, Japanese electronics manufacturer NEC revealed last week that counterfeiters had effectively ripped off the company's entire brand. Factories in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong were allegedly involved in a sophisticated piracy ring that produced around 50 different types of electronic equipment, including DVD and MP3 players, which the counterfeiters then hawked as NEC products. The pirates even went so far as to design their very own line of fake NEC goods. The fact that NEC hadn't designed them didn't stop irate buyers...
...That's when "the movement," as the protests are dubbed, was born. "Popular anger exploded," British Ambassador Keith Bloomfield told TIME. For around two weeks, young Nepalese have clashed with police and soldiers along a ring road surrounding the city, hurling bricks, burning barricades of tires, and dodging tear gas, baton charges and the occasional live round. Last Thursday police shot dead three people in the southwest neighborhood of Kalanki, according to the body count at the city's Model Hospital, where staff said two were killed by pistol shots to the head. On Saturday the protesters got to within...