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...join the insurgency against the U.S. in Iraq. His odyssey ended on March 3 when al-Banna's brother Ahmed received a call on his cell phone from a man identifying himself as "one of your brothers from the Arab peninsula"--the term radical Islamists use to signify the core of the Muslim world, centered on the holy city of Mecca. Al-Banna's family says that as far as they knew, Ra'ed was in Saudi Arabia working at a new job. But the voice on the other end sounded Iraqi, Ahmed says. "Congratulations," the caller told him. "Your...
...Desert Conservation Plan, and last year the county proposed a $174 million bond issue to buy up open land for conservation. The measure passed easily, with 65% voter approval. Under the plan, the county allows concentrated growth in designated areas while preserving swaths of open space in environmentally sensitive core areas in a large ring around Tucson. That open space preserves the characteristic desert vistas while providing corridors for wildlife to move around the edges of housing areas. Huckelberry aims to preserve 263,880 acres in that...
...just as he was about to delay college and join the Marines, Guzman heard that Miami Dade College, one of the largest community colleges in the U.S., had created an honors college offering an advanced, university-level core curriculum that would allow him to fine-tune his skills and do it without having to pay Stanford's $29,847 tuition. Now in his second and final year at Miami Dade, Guzman, 19, is as confident as a Connecticut preppy about tackling Stanford or an Ivy League college next year. "If I had gone to Stanford, I might be failing...
Even hard-core gym rats like Priscilla Silva of Whittier, Calif., have found fitness nirvana in belly dance. A project manager for an entertainment company, Silva says she got bored by her old six-day-a-week weight-training routine at the gym. After 21/2 years of belly dance, she says, "I'm lean in different places, like my abdominals, hips and inner thighs." Best of all, "you don't even realize you're following a workout regimen because you're so caught up in the music and movement." Silva says she has no desire to set foot...
...Hitting the weight room in earnest with the upperclassmen and skating in captain’s practice prior to the season’s start, Pelle worked himself into the shape he’d need to crash the net as he had throughout his career with the Apple Core...