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...hundreds of millions of fans who will watch the World Cup from around the globe, football is also more than a mere game. After all, a football team is a vessel for a nation's habits and aspirations, psychoses and strengths, triumphs and disappointments. Brazil's beautiful game. France's Les Bleus. Italy's Azurri. Nigeria's Super Eagles. They are more than teams. They are 11-man embodiments of national pride and passion. And yet the World Cup may be the only medium where national pride can be flagrantly, vividly manifest without diplomats being recalled and troops mobilized...
...terror groups in the Middle East?many veterans were trained by Yasser Arafat's p.l.o.?and they operate an armament delivery service for other militants around the world. According to Indian intelligence, who deeply resent Prabhakaran and the Tigers for the 1991 assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, a Tiger vessel has been used to transport weapons from al-Qaeda to the Abu Sayyaf group in the Philippines and to Turkey to supply rebels in Chechnya. "They have the best terrorist shipping network in the world," says Gunaratna. But while the U.S. is trying to portray itself...
...answer. Evidence is growing that not all the fatty deposits found in coronary arteries are equally prone to trigger heart attacks. Often the smallest, least detectable plaques are the most dangerous--because of their unhappy tendency to burst, triggering the formation of a clot that blocks a blood vessel...
...surgery, performed in Saudi Arabia, involved the transfer of a uterus from a 46-year-old donor who had undergone a hysterectomy into a 26-year-old woman whose uterus had been removed because of hemorrhaging. The organ survived for 99 days but failed after kinking or other blood-vessel problems choked off circulation. Many members of the medical community were nonetheless encouraged. Says New York University's Giuseppe Del Priore, who has performed the procedure on animals: "Now that we have the first, the second and third transplant should come soon...
...androgynous Uber-Morlock who runs the dark world of the Morlocks through mind control, has the one memorable monologue in the movie. Hartdegan has traveled to the creepy center of the Morlock world to look for the captured Mara, who is being kept by Uber as an eventual breeding vessel for the Morlock race. Irons has less than five minutes of screen time, but Uber manages to emerge as the most complex character in the film...