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...Tal Afar, a city 30 miles west of Mosul populated almost entirely by Iraqi Turkoman, was overrun by terrorist groups this summer. In early September, the U.S. Army laid siege to the town and the ensuing two-week battle was so fierce that the Turkish government complained that Americans were killing innocent Turkoman civilians. Many Mosul residents worry that Tal Afar was a dry run for their city...
While the rest of his unit unloaded its gear on the outskirts of the city, Dan went to the Tal Ara base, a rocky military outpost overlooking the city, to make a final check of the target's coordinates. Then Dan rejoined his men and gave them a pep talk. In speeches like these, he addresses his troops as "lions." Based on the accounts of the soldiers after the operation, Dan and his unit moved into the casbah at 2:30, using their preferred mode of transport--their feet. "You have to walk very, very carefully," he says. In groups...
...hormone cocktail designed to stimulate ovarian maturation. Although the follicles that eventually produce eggs would normally remain inactive until puberty, in this case they began to secrete the female hormone oestradiol after four weeks in the test-tube?a sign that they were maturing. Team leader Dr. Tal Biron-Shental from Meir Hospital in Kfar Saba, Israel, says her aim is to provide infertile women with a steady supply of donor eggs for in-vitro fertilization, but admits the technology is only in its earliest stages. It has, however, already produced baby mice...
...into the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in 1993. DIED. TONY MILES, 46, Britain's first chess grand master, who was ranked for a decade among the top 10 in the game; in his sleep, in Birmingham, England. Miles, confident, brassy and aggressive, beat former world champions Mikhail Tal, Boris Spassky and Anatoly Karpov. died. Cornelius Warmerdam, 86, a world record-setting pole vaulter who was named pole vaulter of the century in 2000 by USA Track & Field; in Fresno, California. Warmerdam, a pioneer who competed with primitive bamboo poles, was the first to clear 15 feet...
They hope to present a petition against the living wage to University President Lawrence H. Summers by the end of the week. Currently, they have collected about 30 signatures, but by Friday co-leaders of the project Damian J. Moskovitz ’01 and Tal D. Ben-Shachar ’96, a resident tutor of Leverett House, hope to have more than...