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Stretch carefully. Limbering up is important for everyone, but overweight exercisers should stay away from stretches that strain the lower back, including that classic from gym class, the toe-touching drill...
Some cadets go to West Point and encounter its demands, and for the next four years they pray that they can toe the line and make it through. Others, however, run the hardest obstacle course twice: once to test their technique, the next time to test their toughness...
...figures huddled beside the graveyard on the road that leads into the Pakistani town of Mardan seemed an unremarkable group, their identities obscured behind the head-to-toe burqas that local women traditionally wear. But these were no ordinary women--in fact, they weren't women at all. Instead, the burqas concealed a group of Pakistani commandos who were waiting last week for a killer. U.S. and Pakistani intelligence had received a tip that a suspected al-Qaeda operative would be traveling to Mardan disguised as a burqa-clad woman. Because any plainclothesmen seen grabbing a woman would attract...
...hours later, the drama continued across town when Yassin's sister and his fiancee, both clad head to toe in black Islamic gowns, veils and gloves and seeking revenge for Yassin's death, fired on a tourist bus heading past a medieval cemetery toward the Citadel, a major Cairo landmark. No tourist was harmed, but the two women died of apparent gunshot wounds - though police reports and eyewitness accounts failed to clarify whether they were killed in a shootout with authorities or committed suicide rather than endure capture. Police officials believe that Yassin and the women had connections to Hassan...
...Running back here, I know that that you can stub your toe and easily sprain your ankle,” he said. “It finally got somebody today...