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...Tennessee native, teaches family and child studies at Seattle Central Community College and does consulting work. They have an 11-year-old daughter at home and a 22-year-old daughter who is on her own. With a 12-year-old Mercury Sable, a three-year-old Toyota pickup truck, a mortgage on a two-bedroom home, and a trip to the movies their idea of an exciting night out, the couple is solidly Middle America...
There have possibly been other missteps as well. In February 2002 a CIA Predator fired at a group of Afghan men gathered around a truck, killing at least three of them. U.S. intelligence insists the men were an al-Qaeda band, but locals say they were nothing more than scrap dealers or smugglers. And as the agency tries to pull together rival Iraqi Kurdish forces into a viable guerrilla force that could take on Saddam, it must confront its sorry history in that territory. In 1995 it attempted to organize a Kurdish rebellion against Saddam...
...most poignant sights I've seen here was a lone soldier - he could not have been more than 18 years old; his mandatory Iraqi moustache was barely visible - sitting in the back of a pickup truck, waving with a child's sense of glee at every passing village. When the fighting starts, that young man will need to grow up very fast...
...shuttle again until it can establish the cause of today's accident, and fix it. Now that we've lost two shuttles out of a fleet of five, it's even conceivable that the shuttle won't fly again. The shuttle was built as a space truck, and then the International Space Station was built to give it something to do. Both programs are likely to suffer as a result of this disaster...
...World Heritage site, in exchange for official undertakings to maintain international standards of conservation. A zoning plan was drawn up, but it has already been flouted: the site of a projected conference center is now a resort. Particularly obnoxious is an absurd choo-choo, drawn by a truck in steam-locomotive drag, which tootles around the stupa. One Java World opponent says when the "conductor" was asked what they did with the train when UNESCO people visited, he replied that they...