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...It’s great to have the Olympians, because they raise the level of play for everyone,” Stone said, “but it’s just too easy to shut one or two people down on the ice. You have to have a unit of six out on the ice all the time where there are threats all over the place...
...Rubin Method is considered a hugely important discovery in the field of statistics and beyond. The method centers on the proposition that an individual person is a cause and effect unit in and of himself. Rubin uses “The Aspirin Example” to explain his theory: If you have a headache and are wondering whether or not to take an aspirin, you are implicitly comparing two worlds, not at the moment you take the aspirin, but two hours from that point. This decision has nothing to do with the change in time...
...hunt for al-Qaeda fugitives. Still, the head of France's military announced on Monday that Osama bin Laden had more than once in recent weeks narrowly escaped from French troops fighting in a new U.S.-led offensive aimed at snaring the al-Qaeda leader. The U.S. military unit that captured Saddam Hussein has been moved to the Afghan-Pakistan border, and U.S. officials have expressed confidence they'll get their man by year's end. And, as President Bush has noted, up to two-thirds of the known al-Qaeda leadership is already either dead or in custody...
...close look by Brian Bennett and Michael Ware at the methods being employed by the insurgents fighting the U.S. We ended 2003 by naming the American soldier as Person of the Year, which included a profile by Michael Weisskopf and Romesh Ratnesar of the Tomb Raiders, an artillery survey unit in the U.S. Army's 1st Armored Division. As many of you know, Weisskopf and photographer James Nachtwey were seriously wounded in a grenade attack while traveling with the unit...
...your ceiling and reporting the phase of the moon. The clock can also tell you the barometric pressure, humidity, predicted weather for the next 12 to 18 hours and the temperature and humidity, transmitted from a wireless sensor that you can place up to 90 ft. from the main unit...