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...meager supplies have kept the besieged alive -- barely -- amid the ruins of their city. Intensive shelling has left few roofs and windows intact. Rockets still regularly slam into the streets, but Gorazde's citizens are holding firm. They hope that help is coming. But so far, the C-130 transport planes droning over Gorazde have been destined for others. "The mountain trail can satisfy only 5% of our needs," says Gorazde Mayor Hadzo Efendic. And the airdrop? "The world has attached much pomp to that," he says...
...NASA released several radar images of the 6.4-km-long (4-mile) dumbbell-shaped asteroid Toutatis taken when it sped within 3.5 million km (2.2 million miles) of Earth -- a hairbreadth by astronomical standards. And while the warning that the 10-km-wide (6-mile) Comet Swift-Tuttle might slam into Earth in 2126 has now been retracted, it briefly caused genuine concern among many scientists...
...friends that were real friends. He said I needed him and he would take care of me." She says his care included threats with a knife, punches, a kick to the stomach that caused a hemorrhage. Navy doctors treated her for injuries to her neck and arm. "He'd slam me up against doors. He gave me black eyes, bruises. Winter and summer, I'd go to work like a Puritan, with long sleeves. Afterward he'd soothe me, and I'd think, He's a good man. What did I do wrong...
...always thought it would be fun to be a "real" basketball player. No, really, I did. Leaping through the air. Slam-dunking the ball. Making three-pointers. Getting TV coverage. Hey, it looked great...
...this biography of perhaps the randiest American hero since Benjamin Franklin. J.F.K.'s model was, of course, his father, Joseph P., financier, politico and womanizer who, foreshadowing his second son's White House trysts, brought his mistress home. An old chum reports that Jack's favorite phrase was "Slam, bam, thank you, ma'am." Inga Arvad, the Danish-born journalist who was Kennedy's lover during the early 1940s, remembers "a boy, not a man, intent upon ejaculation and not a woman's pleasure." Lem Billings, Kennedy's oldest friend, is more sympathetic. "I think he wanted to believe...