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After Blix reports, deliberations in New York City are bound to take a week or so. And it's a given that Saddam will try to pull some diplomatic stunts to avoid an invasion, as he did in 1991, although President George W. Bush last week made it plain that the U.S. would not tolerate such a "last-minute game of deception. The game is over." So it will probably be sometime during those moonless nights at the beginning of March that the diplomatic phase will finally end and the military one begin. The timing of that endgame has apparently...
...local violin player is feasting. Maura Kropke plays at weddings, and Marines have been making her cell phone dance. "Put it this way: I'm doing a whole lot of Tuesday-morning and Wednesday-afternoon weddings lately," she says. "They plan a wedding in three days, and they pull it off, no matter what, even in downpours. I've seen brides coming down the aisle with umbrellas held over them...
...churn and swirl. As long as the shuttle is moving slowly enough, at about 6,000 m.p.h., it can handle the transition. If the shift happens higher in the atmosphere, when the ship is moving faster, the heat and stress increase dramatically. This can sometimes make a shuttle pull to one side--just as Columbia did. Early turbulence can be caused by sudden shifts in air density, but it can also be caused by pitting on the wings or otherwise ragged tiles...
...started chattering with a surprise: Kumaratunga was already at the site. The convoy detoured and the Prime Minister wandered around the back of the ruins for half an hour. Finally he aborted the trip and went back to his hotel for breakfast. Foreign diplomats worry that the squabble will pull apart the peace talks...
...Crimson’s delight, sophomore intercollegiate No. 10 Mike Blumberg looked as if he might pull off a stunning upset over...