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...arrested two men with alleged ties to the Hamburg al-Qaeda cell responsible for the 9/11 attacks. Moroccan Karim Mehdi, 34, was nabbed in the Charles de Gaulle Airport en route to the island of Réunion. He is said to have told interrogators his mission was to scout tourist targets for an attack similar to the Bali bombing last October, which killed 202 people. The next day, at the same airport, officials arrested German Christian Ganczarski, 36, a Mehdi associate and convert to militant Islam. German police said they have traced numbers found in Ganczarski's address book...
...million Number of boxes of Girl Scout cookies sold each year...
...written for the New Yorker. Culled from 40 years and around a million words of baseball writing, they have a certain aged, triple-distilled quality: each one has the internal complexity of a novel. Angell likes to skirt the edges of the diamond: he keeps a lonely big-league scout company as he roves bedraggled backwoods ball parks in search of talent, he hunts down the aging grandmaster Bob Gibson in retirement, and he joins Shakespeare-quoting baseball announcer Tim McCarver in the broadcast booth. The pieces are arranged to follow the chronology of the season rather than...
...always happy to see girl scouts because where there exists brownies, cadettes or any other rank of scoutette, there exists Girl Scout cookies. These $3-a-box commodities provide the life-blood for times of hardship, particularly now when a sense of springtime social responsibility has combined with my need for unconventional meals given my obligation to write 60 pages in the next two weeks...
...fattening cookie with a people who are stereotyped as being abnormally overweight is unfair, but at least it’s better than sticking in the term “Lite.” For starters, “lite” is a non-word. Were the Girl Scout pooh-bahs searching so hard for a term that didn’t include “light” that they stumbled upon something that usually implies low-cal anyway...