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...Laden is known to have tried to develop unconventional weapons: U.S. intelligence officials assert that while living in Sudan in the early ?90s, he tested nerve agents that could be dispensed by bombs or artillery shells. In early 2000, CIA Director George Tenet warned that bin Laden "operatives have trained to conduct attacks with toxic chemicals or biological toxins." The new video suggests how close they may be to pulling them...
...kind of flair WUSA needs more of. These women have been coached extensively since they were kids. "Sometimes we get too technical," says Milbrett. "Coaches give you too much information. I've been allowed to develop that intuitive ability in my career and lifetime." That last part alludes to Milbrett's upbringing. Raised in a single-parent household in Portland, Ore. with an older brother, Milbrett had to be a little more independent than other kids...
...Milbrett isn't just carrying the Power on her back. The stars of the WUSA, including Mia Hamm, Brandi Chastain and Julie Foudy, were instrumental in the league's creation. This is their legacy, and they work ceaselessly to develop the league. This year, although attendance is off a bit, the financials have improved. There are more paying customers at full price, and sponsorship is increasing...
...airing Meet My Folks, a reality rip-off of the movie Meet the Parents in which Mom and Dad grill their children's suitors using a lie detector--and the suitors quiz Mom and Dad about their sex lives. "We just want people to have a good time and develop some insights into the parent-child relationship," says Jeff Gaspin, the executive in charge of NBC reality programming. On ABC's upcoming The Dating Experiment, a couple undertakes challenges--spend a night together on Alcatraz, follow a 412-mile-long string--designed to bring the two closer. Next season...
DIED. W.W. LAW, 79, president of the Savannah, Ga., chapter of the N.A.A.C.P. from 1950 to '76, who engineered desegregation of the city and later helped develop a museum dedicated to the area's civil rights movement; in Savannah. He chose to be known by his initials so it would be harder for people to demean him by calling him by his first name...