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...horses and played for her Ashland Farm team. On Sunday, Sept. 7, when Fauquier County authorities arrived at the 300-acre estate where Cummings and her twin sister Diana live, they found Villegas dead on the kitchen floor with multiple bullet wounds to the neck and chest. Four spent shell casings and a pistol were on the floor in the hall leading to the kitchen...
Soon, a rescue squad arrived by helicopter. Under heavy fire from Hizballah and Amal militiamen, as well as Lebanese army troops, the team evacuated all the commandos but one, who could not be found. An incoming mortar shell killed one of the rescuers, a doctor. A Lebanese woman and child caught in the cross fire were also killed, and six other civilians were injured, as were six Lebanese militiamen and two army soldiers...
...nearly six hours Michael Foale and Anatoly Solovyov walked in space, peering and poking at the shell of the airless Spektr module, looking for holes to plug. They found none. "To our great regret, we have found nothing which could be interpreted as a puncture," said Vladimir Solovyov, chief of Mission Control in Moscow. Though plenty of damage was visible, the ruptures themselves were not apparent...
...important beyond the borders of his country." Michaels has been to Kampala many times. On two return trips this year, her conviction hadn't changed, but the country had. The potholes were fewer, Kampala's skyline and night life were impressive, and the general air of shell shock was gone. "Here," she says, "is hope that is not short term...
BOSTON: MacWorld bomb shell? Steve Jobs, Apple's not-chairman, mentioned in the closer on his address this morning, that, oh yes, by the way, Microsoft is going to be investing $150 million in the troubled Cupertino company. (sound of the Macintosh faithful fainting...) What does Bill Gates get for his money? A stock that at 19 3/4 is a relative bargain in today's hyper bull market. More important, keeping Apple afloat allows Gates to continue to use the alternative to Windows as his hole card in federal antitrust investigations. But looking down the long road ahead, does Bill...