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...label. HIGHLAND PARK: A 40-minute ferry ride from John o'Groats will land you on the Orkney Islands, home to the 208-year-old Highland Park distillery, tel: (44-1856) 874 619. The history of these remote islands has a strong Viking connection, and the wildlife (seals, otters, snipe) is abundant - but everyone's here for the drink. In summer months distillery tours run several times a day, seven days a week...
Abile Mosoco likes to drink coffee while he's fighting. Sip, snipe, sip, snipe. Sometimes the rebel commander reaches for the .22 rifle with telescopic sight that lies next to him as he sits behind a low masonry wall. Sometimes he unslings the Steyr assault rifle from his shoulder and just blasts away. His targets -soldiers of the East Timorese Army, the FDTL-scurry about 200 m below. Every so often a bullet whines overhead, but from his hillside position on the edge of a small plateau near the capital Dili's television tower, Mosoco is a difficult target...
...right shoulder and into the top right of the net, Sifers scored her second goal of the game. “[Sifers] is a rock star and she does everything we ask her to,” Stone said. “She ripped it. We call her Snipes, and its kind of a joke, but that was a snipe today—that last shot was a great shot.” The first period looked anything but sharp for both teams—especially Harvard, which struggled to take accurate shots, clear the puck, and keep the puck...
...hours, 48 minutes, and 58 seconds, 223:59 coming this weekend, together on the ice this winter, and wound up with a combined score of 10-9.“SNIPES” SIFERSThe Crimson offense in yesterday’s game could be summed up in one word: Snipes. That’s the nickname of junior forward Jennifer Sifers, who scored both of Harvard’s goals on the afternoon. After tying the contest at 1 with 1:24 left in the second period, Sifers ended it with a screaming wrist shot into the top left corner...
...insurgents withdraw, only to resurface in a flanking movement from the west, trying to snipe at Green Berets looking to the east, sparking another long fire fight. When things quiet down, it isn't for long. Although the U.S. inflicts heavy punishment on al-Zarqawi's men, the Americans also absorb losses. During a raid by Delta Force operators of Task Force 145 in western Tall 'Afar, insurgents put up fierce resistance at a house believed to be sheltering one of the city's top al-Qaeda operatives. Eight Delta men are wounded, two so seriously that...