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...battle might never have happened if not for a gruesome stroke of luck. On Jan. 27, U.S. troops and their Afghan allies were conducting random checks outside the city of Spin Boldak, a smuggler's haven near the Pakistani border, when a motorcyclist and his passenger roared past a checkpoint. The Americans and Afghans gave chase down a potholed road stretching across a broad mesa dotted with camels. During the pursuit, the turbaned man on the back of the motorcycle reached under his shawl for a grenade but fumbled it, blowing off his own legs. His comrade, Abdul Ghani, surrendered...
Ginny Shear, 52, of LeRoy, N.Y., a quality-assurance technician for Eastman Kodak, devotes a lot of her spare time to serving as the executive director of the Women's Motorcyclist Foundation, a nonprofit organization that educates the public about motorcycling. In 1996 the group started the Pony Express Relay, a national run to raise money for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. Three such relays have been held; the last, in 2000, drew about 700 men and women and raised $450,000. The next event, scheduled for July, will have participants joining the route at various points from...
...Especially since 9/11, we see how unpredictable and short life can be," says Robert Rasor, president of the American Motorcyclist Association (AMA). "More and more boomers are now wanting to try something different in their lives, like motorcycling, realizing that they shouldn't put off their dreams until tomorrow." The average age of AMA members is 47; a decade...
...PHILIPPINES Abu Sayyaf Strikes Security patrols were stepped up in the southern Philippines after a nail bomb killed an American soldier and two Filipinos. The blast, outside a bar near a Philippine army base in the city of Zamboanga, injured at least 21 people. A Filipino motorcyclist who was carrying the bomb was among the dead. Although no-one claimed responsibility for the attack, Philippine police suspect the Abu Sayyaf. This armed Islamic group recently warned that it would attack civilian, military and U.S. targets in the Philippines. The day after the attack a home-made bomb exploded outside...
...guard reported a motorcyclist riding around on the triangle outside Eliot House. The subject was located and reprimanded...