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...Bush meeting with the man who could be his co-summiteer for years to come might provide the U.S. President's first insights into Hu's soul. If Bush takes his measure and likes what he sees, we might be treated one day to Hu in a ten-gallon and stirrups, riding the range down in Crawford...
...Malim Mirwali is like no other Afghan I have met. His shoulders are thick like heavy sacks of flour, his chest broader than a 40-gallon drum. He has pylons for legs. The hand he offered in greeting swallowed mine whole in a fleshy palm, then wrapped it in fingers fat like German sausages. Over his grey kameez and flowing shirt he wore a neat-cut waistcoat. A bushy black beard tumbled from his face. He talked slowly; the same as he moved. "[Helmand] Governor Haji Shir Mohammed and American soldiers have gone on this road to Kajaki [a town...
...magazine profiling hundreds of kidnappable multi-millionaires from around the globe. Armed, and with their faces covered against the wind, the Allied commandos stalked the camp, clearing the area of hidden traps before the spooks arrive for a thorough search. What caught the commandos' attention was several plastic 50 gallon vats of a mysterious chemical liquid...
...Average price per gallon of gasoline nationwide, 55[cents] lower than the year's high...
...Gasoline prices are down near a dollar a gallon and still getting lower, and besides - everybody and his brother just spent October propping up national retail sales by buying brand-new zero-interest-rate automobiles. To grandmother?s house we go. But drivers take shorter trips than flyers and riders, spend less on hotels and spend more time at rest stops and less at the mall. They go to less exotic places - Club Med is closing 15 locations due to a 20-percent bookings decline since the 11th. And how'd you like to be in the rental-car business...