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...Explosive-ordnance-disposal experts with the Joint Special Operations Command are on call to fly in and assist the scientists in taking apart anything they find, but so far, NEST has turned up nothing in the searches. Administration officials admit that, just like putting sky marshals on airliners to foil potential hijackers, sending the NEST teams out is a shot in the dark. "But it's better than having them sitting at home doing nothing," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Secret Bomb Squad | 3/9/2002 | See Source »

...small stretch of pine trees at Dara, a village near Gardez, Special Forces and Afghan allies hunker down on a frontline. Al-Qaeda?s forward positions lie across a few hundred feet of rocky ground, in the first of the mountains of Shah-I-Kot. The sky is filled with light snow and the drone of U.S. strike aircraft pounding the white capped peaks above. Occasionally, the jagged walls of rock rumble with explosions, and belch plumes of black smoke. Within hours the ground attack will recommence. Led by U.S. soldiers, these bedraggled Afghan fighting men in dirty shalwar kameez...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On al-Qaeda's Western Flank | 3/9/2002 | See Source »

...rafters frame the sky. How the squares of light are more interesting than the open sky. They make it look more human by reducing the sky, and then the whole sky grows out from that small space...

Author: By Lindsey E. Mccormack, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Languorous, Lakeside Tale | 3/8/2002 | See Source »

...Sky Conference, led by Weber St. (19-8), No. 109 in RPI. Tourney...

Author: By David R. De remer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Women's Hoops Tournament Seeding Outlook | 3/6/2002 | See Source »

...Atlantic Sun conference, Georgia State, which had an RPI ranking of 133 as of yesterday morning, is the most likely champion. The top Big Sky, MEAC, and Northeast teams had RPI rankings of 109, 114, and 161 respectively...

Author: By Jessica T. Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Yesterday’s Victory Should Give Harvard Higher Seed | 3/6/2002 | See Source »

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