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...oversight. French antiterror magistrates Jean-Louis Bruguière and Jean-François Ricard are also holding Arif for alleged similar involvement with a Chechen-trained group arrested outside Paris in December 2002 that is suspected of planning a chemical-bomb attack. "Arif's activities and associates span from Azerbaijan to England ," the French official says. "Getting hold of him is very big." Nuclear Rebuke IRAN The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the U.N.'s Vienna-based nuclear watchdog, unanimously adopted a resolution deploring Tehran's failure to fully cooperate with the IAEA's investigation into the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 6/20/2004 | See Source »

...would notice it because the opposing coaches and players are all imploring one another to keep an eye on her, yelling out the number on her jersey. You would see because she somehow manages to chase down and impact virtually every play made on the lengthy span of artificial turf...

Author: By Pablo S. Torre, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: End of an Era: Jen Ahn | 6/10/2004 | See Source »

...goal performance in 2004 was a modest increase from her 16-goal output from 2003. She fell from second in points on the team in 2003 to fifth in 2004. Her shot percentage improved by just .003 in that span...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Female Breakout Athlete Runner-Up: Elaine Belitsos | 6/10/2004 | See Source »

Three games into the season, it appeared that the scouts had him pegged. Stehle blocked six shots and pulled down 13 boards in that span, while contributing nine points per contest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Male Breakout Athlete Runner-Up: Matt Stehle | 6/10/2004 | See Source »

Nutritionally, the shift away from wild meat, fruits and vegetables to a diet mostly of cultivated grain robbed humans of many of the essential amino acids, vitamins and minerals they had thrived on. Average life span increased, thanks to the greater abundance of food, but average height diminished. Skeletons also began to show a jump in calcium deficiency, anemia, bad teeth and bacterial infections. Most meat that people ate came from domesticated animals, which have more fat than wild game. Livestock also supplied early pastoralists with milk products, which are full of artery-clogging butterfat. But obesity still wasn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Obesity Crisis:Evolution: How We Grew So Big | 6/7/2004 | See Source »

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