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...they were taking in a strange exhibit at the zoo. You can see the uncertainty on their faces, as they drive into the night, chased by the gorgeous sticker-wielding Rafsanjani girls. If the moment had an anthem, it would surely belong to 127: "As the new sky's falling, no one's running. No one's running...
...when owning seems a sure way to riches? On closer view, he just may be on to something. The Choes sold their tiny ranch in Sacramento, Calif., for $369,000, or nearly twice what they had paid three years earlier. But rather than plow his money back into a sky-high market in which people were bandying about the word bubble, Choe rented a bigger house in a better neighborhood--at a monthly expense similar to his old mortgage and for less than half of what it would take to buy the new place...
...m.p.g.-of-gas car may sound like a pie-in-the-sky dream. But in fact, it is technologically possible. Green-car enthusiasts in California are experimenting with innovative plug-in technology, while DaimlerChrysler will soon be testing its own plug-in van. And ethanol has long been used as a fuel. Indeed, Domenici's committee last month adopted a measure in the energy bill requiring gasoline refiners to increase the ethanol they use each year to 8 billion gal. by 2012, up from 5 billion gal. mandated by the House...
...Hassan was peppered with shrapnel and hurled into the air by an explosion. "I was sure I was fighting the Bhalkhel, so the last thing I expected was for bombs to fall from the sky," he says. When he regained consciousness, his best friend Alif Shah was lying beside him. "A fire was burning inside his chest," Hassan recalls. "He was dead." The tribesmen on the ridge were too dazed and panicked to count the bombs, but Kamil Shah, who watched in horror from nearby Zambar village, says "80 to 100 bombs fell that night." His brother...
...team packed up and strolled outward, teammates looked back on Goodwin Field for a last time. Some peeked upwards at the cloudless blue sky, dragging their equipment bags behind them...