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...thunderclap-at least that's what it sounded like-woke the whole of Normanton. Still in his pajamas, the police sergeant rushed to the river bank, where a group of local men-"practical jokers," says Wolfgang Arneth, who's telling the story-were drinking rum. "What are you silly bastards up to now?" the cop said. "We're going to be famous,'' came the reply. "We've sent a man into space...
...Arneth, a 70-year-old former crocodile hunter who goes by the name of Wolf, is reminiscing about the great Normanton rocket launch of 1957. He was among the party of inebriated amateur scientists gathered by the river that night. They'd heard on the radio that the Soviets had just put the Sputnik spacecraft into orbit. "We thought, We can build a rocket,'' Arneth says. Commandeering a welder, they made a long cylinder from three 44-gallon drums, then rigged up a nose cone from an old hopper. "They got an old car seat and put that...
...Lebanon village of Froun, two miles from here. The huge blasts and column of dirt and smoke that rise from Froun are watched intently by Haj Rabieh and Abu Mohammed, two veteran Hizballah fighters, who live among the bombed-out ruins of this village just south of the Litani river. An Israeli reconnaissance drone whines directly overhead and both Hizballah men know that the bombs pounding Froun could soon be directed against them if they are spotted...
...other prominent Shi'ite militia, the Badr Corps, which has close ties to Iran, in control of the Ministry of Interior. The second proposal was chilling. "We could partition Baghdad," said a general. "It's beginning to partition itself." But if the city were divided along the Tigris River-a popular rumor in the Iraqi blogosphere-approximately 1 million Sunnis would be stranded on the Shi'ite side and vice versa. "The human catastrophe would be extraordinary," said an Army colonel. If partition happens, an Iraqi official told Reuters, "Iraq as a political project is finished," and chaos ensues. Colonel...
Earlier this month Rice took her senior staff to the Wye River Conference Center on Maryland's Eastern Shore to plan the fall, including a presidential trip to the U.N. The former plantation was the site of Bill Clinton's negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians. A reprise looks very far off to the Bush team. Nevertheless, friends say, Rice, 51, is thriving in her higher-profile role, working from 6:30 a.m. until 7:30 or 8 at night, then treating herself to tennis, the Kennedy Center and brunches with friends on weekends. Roughly one Sunday a month...