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Even if the assault on the U.N. mission in Baghdad, apparently by a suicide truck bomber, would not have been prevented by a greater military presence in Iraq (troops can never guard every potential target), there are other signs that the U.S. Army is stretched too thin. More than a few heads snapped when Peter Schoomaker, the yanked-from-retirement general who is now the Army Chief of Staff, said in his confirmation hearing in late July that he "intuitively" thought "we need more people." His gut feeling apparently changed after Rumsfeld howled that Schoomaker's remarks had been distorted...
...Kathy Boudin, 60, former member of the radical Weather Underground group, after serving 22 years in prison; in New York. In 1981 members of the Black Liberation Army, working with the Weather Underground, murdered a Brinks security guard while robbing an armored car, then transferred $1.6 million to a truck driven by Boudin. Two police officers were killed in the getaway...
When George Bush talks about Iraq, his standard response is "We're making good progress." But as Tuesday's terror strike on UN headquarters in Baghdad underscored, America's enemies in Iraq have good reason to be satisfied with their own, grisly progress. The truck-bomb attack that killed 15 people, including UN Special Representative Sergio Vieira De Mello, was simply the latest brutal calling card from what appears to be an increasingly confident and tactically diverse insurgency. President Bush left no doubt that the attacks have not shaken his resolve, vowing hours after the bombing that "these killers will...
Small entrepreneurs like Carbolite were among the first to profit from the Atkins revival. The private company, which started in 1993 with Morrison and a friend peddling low-fat foods from the back of a pickup truck, switched to low carb five years ago. Carbolite chocolate bars were introduced in 2000 and became a best seller in drugstores. Revenues at the firm, which has 15 employees, reached $45 million last year and are expected to top $70 million this year, Morrison says...
...outskirts of Flagstaff, Ariz., Wally Covington drives his pickup truck through a forest choked with nearly impenetrable thickets of ponderosa pines. At last he arrives at the spot where, 10 years ago, he and his colleagues took chain saws to hundreds of trees no bigger than telephone poles, carted off the trunks and branches, and then set fires to clear away the understory. Today the result of these Bunyanesque labors is a marvel to behold, a sun-dappled woodland arched over by the branches of 300-year-old trees and, in the spaces between them, a profusion of grasses...