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...impossible terrain in places where bin Laden might be hiding. That area is a saw-bladed mountain range 1,500 miles long. But most troops aren't just looking for him specifically. Instead, they are patrolling the border against incursions by Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters. Rather than trek through the vast mountainous region hoping for a chance encounter, the U.S. command is now engaged in a slow but probably more effective tactic of trying to win over Pashtun villagers by digging wells and giving away tractors and generators. The hope is that someday a villager might trust the Americans...
Residents of Riverside, Iowa, hold an annual Trek Fest and call their town (pop. 928) the "future birthplace of Captain James T. Kirk." So how's this for irony: it was WILLIAM SHATNER who made them look foolish. For a new reality show called Invasion Iowa, scheduled to air on Spike TV in February, executive producers Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese (the team responsible for Joe Schmo) asked Shatner to move into Riverside with a fake entourage and crew and pretend to shoot a sci-fi movie. Townsfolk were hired for the bogus production. Throughout the eight-day shoot, Shatner...
...home to me. Home to me and thousands of other loyal fans who made the trek, five, maybe 10 times a year. You could sit wherever you’d like for less than 10 bucks Canadian for most of the time I was growing up. Cheaper than a movie, I’d say, and certainly cheaper than a Montreal Canadiens hockey game...
...team, for its part, credits that rejuvenation in large part to the loud support exhibited by Harvard’s women’s ice hockey team, which made the trek to Rhode Island to help negate the hostile Bears fans on Brown’s Warner Roof...
Save the big cats! finally, a cover story to be enthusiastic about. A trek into the savanna--a land unpopulated by those other man eaters, Bush and bin Laden. What I would give for this vacation to never end! LEIF JOHNSON Orinda, Calif...