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Neither a two-month layoff, reading period, exams nor intersession could hurt the Harvard men’s or women’s fencing teams...
...Security Council resolution that created UNMOVIC and mandated quarterly reports - to present the Council with a comprehensive report, including a "work plan" for Iraqi disarmament, toward the end of March. With January 27 no longer a trigger date, Blix, supported by the European Union, appears to be suggesting a two-month (and possibly longer) postponement in formulating any kind of conclusion. And chief nuclear inspector Mohammed El-Baradei has suggested that it may take his team another year to finish their...
...Pacific's high seas. Pham says a voyage planned as a three-day trip to Santa Catalina Island went scarily wrong when a hook attached to his mast snapped and his radio went dead. He says he then floated for 2,500 miles, living at first on a two-month supply of rice, beans, tomatoes and water, then on rainwater, tuna and turtles, until he was rescued by a warship. Attention, network executives: heartwarming tale of perseverance against the odds, right in your own backyard...
...former player Lea Pericoli recently said, "For two friends [to compete] it can be difficult. For two from the same country, very difficult. For sisters, impossible." Maybe that is what made the Roland Garros match so error-strewn. The statistics showed just how disappointing the match was. In the 149 points of the match, 115 produced unforced errors, with 13 breaks of serve and 14 double faults. Even the girls' normally blistering serves slowed down by as much as 30 km/h. When the sister act reaches Wimbledon later this month, the one-two combination will probably produce another Williams final...
...Kong has banned poultry imports from China, if only temporarily. When Macau detected H5N1 in Chinese geese last May, Chinese waterfowl imports were banned for three months. And after avian flu was detected in Chinese duck meat by Seoul authorities in mid-2001, Japan and South Korea imposed a two-month ban. Within days of Hong Kong's latest outbreak, sales of chicken plunged 80%?an estimated loss to retailers of $13 million. "This is supposed to be our peak season," says Wong Wai-Chuen, chairman of a local poultry association, referring to Lunar New Year celebrations...