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...love catching passes,” Widman admits. “But I know that fullback and tight end are both physical positions, there’s a ton of blocking in both. It’s a good challenge, and I look forward to learning this position. I’m willing to do anything to help the team...
...Diplomats and spies have always shared worlds. Most U.S. intelligence officers operate out of embassies under the cover of diplomatic immunity, and America's envoys are used to the advances of foreign agents?and to reporting them promptly when they happen. So Washing-ton's diplomatic corps was stunned last week when Keyser, a practitioner known for impeccable judgment and intimate knowledge of the intelligence world, was arrested by federal agents. The diplomatic gaffe was surprising enough: the U.S. keeps contacts with Taiwan at arm's length out of deference to China, and visits to the island by key diplomats...
...petrochemicals are a major component of plastic, and Yuyao?often known as "Plastics City"?is under siege. According to local merchants, the price of a ton of ABS (acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene), a common ingredient in hard-plastic products, has virtually doubled since March. "The prices for raw materials have gotten so high that no one is making a profit," says Mrs. Xu, who runs a small raw-materials factory with her husband. Xu, who declined to give her full name, says many of the factories she supplies have gone bankrupt this summer. Xu Songquan (no relation), who has been...
...order to whisk warriors to global hot spots in a hurry, the military is counting on its new 19-ton armored vehicle known as the Stryker. The Pentagon persuaded Congress to spend $8.7 billion on 2,096 Strykers because of their ability to be loaded into the ubiquitous C-130 cargo planes, flown to war zones, then immediately rolled down the planes' back ramp and into combat. To convince doubters, the Army even staged a demonstration at Andrews Air Force Base, in which a Stryker and its 11-troop crew emerged from the belly of a C-130 like toothpaste...
...according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), even a stripped-down Stryker weighs 19 tons, two more than the C-130 routinely carries. And Iraq has exposed the Stryker's shortcomings. To protect against rocket-propelled grenades, common in every war zone, the Strykers in Iraq wear a 2.5-ton cage of steel. This also makes them too large to fit aboard a C-130. The steel cage is only a temporary fix. But the final solution--form-fitting armor that will be ready next year--weighs even more, 4.5 tons, and takes 10 hours to bolt on. That...