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...signs of online religious activity are everywhere. If you instruct AltaVista, a powerful Internet search engine, to scour the Web for references to Microsoft's Bill Gates, the program turns up an impressive 25,000 references. But ask it to look for Web pages that mention God, and you'll get 410,000 hits. Look for Christ on the Web, and you'll find him--some 146,000 times...
Many other teams work for their programs as well. Both the women's and men's water polo team scour Bright Hockey Center after each home game, while the softball team attends to the scoreboards and video at the field hockey games...
Once across the Sava, the troops will move to the Tuzla area along narrow, twisting roads blanketed in snow. Worse, the roads, winding along the bottoms of valleys, are highly vulnerable to snipers on the surrounding mountains. Advance troops will have to scour the hills to make sure their comrades can move along the roads in safety. Finally, in and around Tuzla, they will occupy a 500-mile-long border area designed to separate Serb from Muslim and Croat forces, setting up checkpoints and patrols to make sure nobody crosses without legitimate business...
...avoid. Grachev had remarked recently that only an "incompetent commander" would order tanks into the streets of central Grozny, where they would be vulnerable to rocket launchers, grenades, even Molotov cocktails. Yet at the end of December he did it. Forgetting the cardinal rule that infantry precedes armor to scour buildings for lurking enemy squads, Russian tanks and personnel carriers advanced straight into the urban canyons of the Chechen capital, and scores were blown away. For a week roving bands of Chechen irregulars have held off 40,000 Russian troops...
...planning a mano-a-mano confrontation: TIME's Allis reports that many have already changed into their civvies and gone home -- with weapons. The so-called "evaporation defense," which the junta threatened weeks ago, would leave 7,500 Haitian soldiers in hiding as 20,000 better-armed U.S. troops scour the country. The Haitian troops will either act as snipers or, if people feel safe after a U.S. invasion, they'll be fingered by the civilians they used to terrorize, says Allis...