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Salem wasn’t the only target town. ACT sends volunteers to all corners of the state, where they are dropped off with nothing but a map, a list of undecided voters, and a basic training sheet...
...Passau probably don't think of themselves as champions of the euro. Yet this August they scored a victory for Europe's single currency. On a warm Friday afternoon, about 500 people drank beer, ate bratwurst and--for almost five hours--blocked a road into neighboring Austria. Their target: the high price of gasoline in Germany, which, thanks to taxes, is about 20% more expensive than in Austria. Every day an estimated 2,000 German motorists fill up at a BP station across the border in Austria--at the expense of the 17 stations in Passau...
...Chicago Bulls, superstar Michael Jordan not only learned to live with the triangle, he took command executing it. In Los Angeles, Jackson fought a losing battle getting players like Gary Payton, a former star with Seattle, to see its benefits. "Players would like to know that they are the target person in this particular time down the court, that they have an opportunity to conquer, demolish their opponent," says Jackson. "They see it as an individualized action...
...onto a dusty plain and struggle with the uneven terrain and fine sand. One tank gets stuck for a spell. "So much for rolling right on in," says Captain Brian Chontosh, who heads the infantrymen of India Company. But they are protected. The deep percussion of artillery impacting the target area booms through the night, sending a huge black cloud into the sky. Aerial surveillance spots a pickup truck with a mounted machine gun moving in from the west. From above comes a deep rumbling sound. "Basher took it out," says a radio operator in Chontosh's carrier. Insurgents seen...
...year-old home to some of Shi'ism's most prominent teachers of jurisprudence; he has lived there ever since. Najaf's schools were filled with as many Persians as Arabs. Sistani never lost his thick native accent and remains an Iranian citizen, which has made him a target of Arab rivals like al-Sadr who disparage his ethnicity...