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...they were home, she could stop thinking about them all the time. The calls are reassuring, but Lauren's leg begins to tap up and down when the subject of war comes up. "Nothing's going to happen. Mom's always on top of things and cheerful. Dad worked at the Pentagon, Mom at the White House. Nothing's going to happen." And her leg keeps tapping, up and down. --Reported by Jim Lacey/Kuwait, Cathy Booth Thomas/Fort Campbell, Rita Healy/Denver, Hilary Hylton/Fort Hood, Constance E. Richards/Asheville and Mark Thompson/Washington
...computer, and between a website and a TV channel, will then start evaporating like pixels on a dying screen. Viewers will choose whether to watch ads and which way to watch them. How will brands vie for consumers' attention? For a taste of the future, tap the words Axe Feather into an Internet search engine. Any number of the results will take you to a page featuring an attractive young woman, clad in skimpy red undergarments, lying on a bed. Move the virtual feather with your cursor to tickle various parts of her body to get her to sneeze, giggle...
...Delta, exploded in a massive fireball. The inferno left dozens of bodies charred beyond recognition. Police say that the explosion was most likely caused by vandalism. The pipeline, which ran under a beach, had been uncovered. Small holes had been drilled in it through which thieves could tap off fuel. The leaking pipeline had attracted local villagers who were filling containers when it blew. Nigeria's Red Cross said that the explosion ignited hundreds of cans full of fuel. Yet incidents like last week's tragedy are not the greatest danger to Nigeria's oil industry. Nigerians have long vandalized...
...second best trick, which I'm trying at the moment, is to make room for gas in my general household budget by living as if it were 10 years ago, when fuel was relatively inexpensive and my personal consumption habits were too. I drank my water from the tap back then, not from bottles brought on ships from Iceland, and I let my cell phone ring however it wanted to rather than paying for special tones. Perhaps by returning to older, simpler ways I'll find the extra 11 bucks I need now to fill my tank past the three...
...early Facebook euphoria,” Kaufman said. “There is now a withdrawal as students realize that employers and deans look at this.” And Facebook users have an added incentive to remain discrete, now that their younger siblings in high schools nationwide can tap into the site. Of course, in some instances when undergrads indicate that they’re “engaged” on the Facebook, wedding bells are indeed ringing. Lana Lobachova ’06 has been dating her fiancé for five years, and the marriage...