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...falling-out between normally amicable allies was the result of renewed German demands that the U.S. open talks with the Soviet Union on reducing Europe's short-range nuclear weapons, nearly all of which are deployed on West German soil. At one point, Genscher complained that his country would bear the brunt of a Soviet attack. An exasperated Cheney interrupted Genscher: "Look, if the flag goes up, we're all going to be obliterated, so we don't need to hear any of that...
Brown threatened in the bottom of the eighth, but Wambach threw out the potential tying run with a perfect throw to Co-Captain and catcher Nancy Prior. Prior collided with the Bear runner and remarkably held onto the ball. The game was effectively over. Harvard once again had pulled out a nail-biter...
...Angeles means to reduce it to rubble and build from scratch. But even those well-intentioned souls who hope to expand or restore an old house find that remodeling can be much more expensive than wrecking it and starting over. Anyway, in most cases the existing homes bear no resemblance to the sugarplums dancing in many Hollywood heads. Many of the mansions under construction, ornate stone boxes known among architects as "birthday cakes," average roughly 10,000 sq. ft.; the typical American home is 2,000 sq. ft. Among the popular features are recording studios, tanning parlors, servants' quarters, double...
Nothing is safe from her depredations, not even endangered species. Government agents recently rounded up a band of poachers accused of slaughtering hundreds of black bears in the Northeastern U.S., ripping out their gallbladders and selling them for profit. The gallbladders are dried and ground into powder and sent to Asia, where they are sold for as much as $540 an oz. for "medicinal" purposes. Men who take a tiny pinch of the powder are convinced that it enhances their libido. They believe that if you devour parts of a powerful animal, you will absorb its sexual vitality...
...Montreal but raised mostly in Halifax, Robert MacNeil was the son of a seagoing Mountie (in Canada's equivalent of the Coast Guard) and a Nova Scotian mother who delighted in reading aloud to her sons. MacNeil's first nonbaby words were "gin fizz" -- the name of a teddy bear. He recalls being amazed, on a rare trip aboard his father's corvette, that sailing terms derived from Viking days (coxswain, starboard) still have a defining role in modern navies. MacNeil's memories of Nova Scotia have what D.H. Lawrence called a "spirit of place." In the book's best...