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...that Task Force 1/9 was ambushed three minutes into the operation and hit by 26 RPGs, eight roadside bombs and relentless small-arms fire during the gun battles that followed. One grenade landed just 3 ft. from Captain Foley; a concrete fence and the quick reactions of the specialist who pushed Foley out of the way are all that saved him. "We handed them their arses, but we were lucky," says Foley. "Each morning I thank God we got outta there that day." No one knows about the next time...
...world's most endangered cat, down to fewer than 200 in Spain and probably extinct in Portugal. "There are only two reproducing populations left in southern Spain," says Urs Breitenmoser of the Institute of Veterinary Virology in Bern, who co-chairs the IUCN/World Conservation Union's Cat Specialist Group. "We need a breeding program in order to re-create a viable population that is genetically diverse." Eight wild lynx are now in captivity and, with luck, will start having offspring next year. Within a few years, scientists hope to begin the delicate task of repopulating areas that have lost...
...Emile de Antonio is a specialist at cinematic acupuncture. In such documentary essays as Point of Order (about the Army-McCarthy hearings) ... he needled some popular historic myths and a few political reputations. Now, in Millhouse, De Antonio has employed his usual technique of matching fragments of news film with quick on-camera interviews to produce an unflattering but funny likeness of the 37th President (whose middle name is Milhous, not Millhouse, but let that go). To be sure, De Antonio's jubilant bias sometimes plays him false. Nixon is too often seen stumbling over a foot or a phrase...
...Using video analysis to find faults is sometimes only half the battle. Fixing problems is far harder, as Canadian butterfly specialist Mike Mintenko found in Sydney in 2000 after he missed an Olympic medal by a fingernail, finishing fifth in the 100-m final. After analyzing the race, his coach concluded that Mintenko blew it?literally?at the 75-m mark. The analysis showed that Mintenko's shallow breathing after the 50-m turn didn't allow him to maintain enough oxygen to keep his muscles from tiring. In February Mintenko tried out a device, made by Houston-based PowerLung...
...tourists. In Britain, Germany and elsewhere, there are stringent health and safety controls, including fire regulations and rules governing contact with farm animals. That might scare off a laid-back farmer, but in other places, especially poorer regions, including Poland, farmers are undeterred. Slawomir Bojar, a Polish electronics specialist, got into the agritourism business last year because he was looking for a change of pace after heart surgery. He and his wife bought a 100-year-old property near the shore of Lake Sarag in the Mazurian district in the north. After making some renovations, they now rent out rooms...