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...closer, repeats the order; stillness. He puts his gun against the man's head: "Wanna back up?" The car slides into reverse. "Well, if he wasn't an insurgent," somebody says, "he sure is now." Finding a string nearly buried in the street dirt, James finds it attached to seven bombs and matter-of-factly snaps the wire for each. OK, that's done. Piece of cake, seven slices...
...Measure of the Medalist I am happy for Michael Phelps' success in Beijing [Aug. 25]. But it is not apt to compare Phelps to Mark Spitz and the seven gold medals he earned at the 1972 Munich Olympics. Spitz did not have the advantages of superspeedy pools and lazer-sleek swimsuits. Nor did he wear a streamlined cap to cover his hair. In fact, he swam with a mustache. Spitz won his medals the old-fashioned way. It has taken more than 30 years of technological innovation for anyone to come close to his success. Mark D. Reese, SALT LAKE...
...visited the Lower 9th Ward a couple of months ago with some friends," Williams said. "It is despicable and a shame to see that in the Lower Ninth Ward, an area with predominantly poor African-Americans, there are weak, seven-foot levees...
...circus in the Nevada desert, said there's no way to know. "Among the oldest participants I've ever had the pleasure to hang out with, one was actor Larry Hagman, who was born in September of '31," she said. "So your cousin has him beat." Easily. Irving was seven when J.R. Ewing was born...
...society is now gearing up to launch another protection program for Arizona's signature cactus, the saguaro, whose beautiful white blossoms are the state flower. While the saguaro is not among Arizona's seven endangered cactus species, the shallow-rooted plant is often preyed upon by poachers, who can earn up to $60 a foot for a wild specimen, Wiedhopf says. The desert symbol grows slowly, about an inch a year - it can take six or seven decades for the saguaro cactus to grow an arm - and those 15-to-20-foot saguaros that dot the Sonoran desert...