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This is one of them. Lane, Codie and Wyatt (as the Hickman boys are called) have spastic cerebral palsy, the most common form, accounting for nearly 80% of cases. "We first noticed that they weren't walking when they should," Cindy recalls. "Instead they were only doing the combat crawl." Their brains seemed to be developing age appropriately, but their muscles were unnaturally stiff, making walking difficult if not impossible...
...being compared to Winston Churchill during the blitz, he is not entitled to affix an official "Sir" before his name. Later he and his companion JUDITH NATHAN took in the sights and met Prime Minister Tony Blair. Visiting with members of Parliament, Giuliani offered some tips on how to combat London's rising crime rate. With few squeegee men in London, it's going to be tough...
...State Department's latest bad guys list. There's no talk of targeting the group if or when Abu Sayyaf are mopped up. When Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo visited Washington in November, she said she and U.S. President George W. Bush had no disagreements on how to combat terrorism in her country. "Where I draw the line," she said, "he draws the line...
...land. The Sept. 11 deeds of Saudi-born terrorist Osama bin Laden and 15 fellow Saudi plane hijackers have put the secretive Kingdom's worsening strains on public view as rarely before. Whether in response to the need to curb Islamic extremism, hold down soaring population growth, combat plummeting personal incomes or eliminate royal corruption, the world is calling on Abdullah - as are many Saudis - to get the country's house in order. Not the least of Sept. 11's fallout: crucial ties with the U.S. dating back six decades have neared the breaking point, with voices on both sides...
...Italian justice official told Time that investigators are trying to determine if there were direct links between those arrested last week and Khemais' Milan cell: "It looks as though the Rome suspects are part of the same Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat. So it's a real possibility that there were contacts." Other early evidence points to signs of al-Qaeda operations, including piles of false identity papers for apparent sale and distribution. And the plot's unsophisticated approach recalls the relatively simple tools used by other presumed al-Qaeda members, such as suspected shoe-bomber Richard Reid...