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...that the situation could get worse: "If the findings were to show a fundamental design or construction failure, then we'd have to tear it down and start again." Some experts predict that worst-case scenario won't come about - and also note ADP's good luck: the disaster struck shortly before 7 a.m., limiting a death toll that otherwise might have been in the hundreds. Others suggested the crash might prevent the airport from servicing the new superjumbo Airbus A380 when deliveries begin in 2006, or that it might even imperil Airbus' entire A380 project. That seems farfetched, since...
...jail in Baghdad - your young soldiers will get you into trouble. They will do something so foolish or impetuous or horrible that all your good work will be forgotten, and you - and they - will be reviled for it. "In Burma," George Orwell once wrote, "I was constantly struck by the fact that the common soldiers were the best-hated section of the white community, and judged simply by their behavior, they certainly deserved to be." Americans do not like the idea that their soldiers may be hated, believing - correctly - that U.S. military might has helped liberate millions of innocents...
...commanders cut a deal with local Iraqi leaders to put many of the same insurgents in charge of security under the rubric of a new Iraqi security force working in cooperation with the Marines. A number of reports now suggest that a similar deal is about to be struck with the Sadrists. The U.S. would withdraw from the shrine cities, Moqtada Sadr's militia would be turned into a political party and some of its fighters would be incorporated into the Iraqi security forces. Although the U.S. had previously demanded that Sadr be taken into custody to stand trial over...
Running, however, was something Smarty almost never got a chance to do. During a training session last July, he reared up in the starting gate and struck his head on an overhanging piece of steel. He collapsed with skull fractures and swelling so bad that his left eye protruded from its socket. He regained consciousness in the 45-minute ride to the veterinary center and impressed his handlers by trotting blithely in to see the doctor. By November he was well enough to run--and win--his first race. Seven races later he has yet to lose...
...ascension onto several in the U.S.? Not quite. What gives the book its oomph is that behind Truss's larky manner, she's a fiery vigilante. If you can't learn the difference between the possessive its and the contraction it's, she writes, "you deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked up on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave." Just kidding? Don't be too sure. --By Christopher Porterfield