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...said. “I think they should teach a class in covert political operations so that people could see what’s really going on.” He encouraged students to pursue a career in intelligence but warned them of “the human toll extracted from everyone out there in that field...
...emissions come from across the border with China. Yet new research shows that about half the time, most of Hong Kong's air pollution comes from local sources. Cleaning up our road transport, shipping and power generation will make an enormous difference. Otherwise, there will be a toll on public health, and taxpayers will end up paying for rising medical costs. The government's first step, long overdue, is to adopt the World Health Organization's global air-quality guidelines and make them the bar for Hong Kong...
...Will things get better? Experience has taught Iraqis not to be optimistic. In recent weeks, some things have got better - but it is hard to know if they will last. The massive, U.S.-led security operation in Baghdad has brought some relief. The daily death toll, which had risen to 100 last fall, has dropped. Sunni terrorists continue to kill innocent civilians with car bombs and suicide attacks, but at least the Shi'ite militias have melted away. U.S. military commanders see this as a victory, but few Iraqis are so sanguine. They know that the American soldiers will leave...
...head coach, Nat Goodhartz, is also one of the head coaches of the U.S. women’s national team. Pensler, who hails from Chicago, Ill., picked up fencing at age 10 after watching her younger brother try it out. She soon found out the heavy toll her new sport took on her body. “The first day after I did it for the very first time I couldn’t walk the next day because my legs were so sore,” she said. In a sport like fencing, which requires athletes...
...save, only to get up and play a handful more shots before winning the rally.In another point, after being lobbed at the net, Clayton backpedaled like a cornerback and then sprinted for the bounce, again saving the point.Unfortunately for both Clayton and Nguyen, all these long rallies took a toll, as Clayton ran out of steam in the second and third sets, relinquishing a 3-0 second set lead to fall, 7-6, and then 6-1 in the third.“That guy had just run Chris out of legs, which is hard...