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...zones, from which Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's planes have been barred since shortly after the 1991 war's end, the number of missions flown by British and American warplanes has jumped sharply in recent months. Pilots are flying four missions a week, and they've expanded their target list from Iraqi air defenses that actually lock on to their jets to all surface-to-air installations, threatening or not. They're also hitting military headquarters and surface-to-surface missile systems...
...high-risk women. What was surprising was that it seemed to offer some protection--how much is in dispute--for a subgroup of 498 black and Asian subjects. That does not mean there's new hope for Africa, where the AIDS epidemic is worst; this vaccine doesn't target the strain most common there. But scientists know genetics affects immune response. That may have played a role in this trial and will be explicitly tested in newer trials...
...industrial-strength charm. In the years ahead, his tommy-gun speech, his more or less Polish accent and his hand-tooled cowboy boots will become as familiar to New Yorkers as Sarah Jessica Parker and her Manolo Blahniks. His intense campaigning for the project made him a target of criticism. But Libeskind has produced a design worth campaigning for. At its symbolic center is the "bathtub," the scorched and scoured pit in which the foundations of the Trade Center once stood, plus its surrounding concrete wall. Libeskind's plan calls for a 7acre area, 30 ft. deep, to be preserved...
...operation was well-rehearsed. Ten days before the assault peshmerga positions along the line of control were swamped by an artillery barrage as infantry maneuvers played out on the Iraqi side. "It kept our heads down while they practiced and tried to gauge how many were in their target villages," says a security official at the crossing checkpoint. On the day of the attack they claim artillery fire hit other positions further inside Kurdistan that could have offered support to the villages under threat...
Other parts of Jackson’s guide are more inspirational. In the author’s note, for example, she attempts to reach out to her target audience of students from public schools who may be the first in their family or town to go to a prestigious college: “You have nothing to lose and a lifetime of wonderful memories and experiences to gain...