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...think I could have taken on the world that night," Hadrick says. "It wasn't the end to a spectacular career--like Beth, Jen, or Heidi. But I love those people. They've touched my life. I wouldn't give this up for the world. I just wanted to win and be a part...
There is, in the annals of totalitarianism, one spectacular anomaly -- the strange case of Mikhail Gorbachev. He drew on the powers vested in him by the Stalinist system to liberate the foreign satellites and liberalize the internal order of the U.S.S.R. That was the miracle of Gorbachev...
...pinpoint accuracy of the attacks was spectacular. At a Friday briefing in Saudi Arabia, Air Force Lieut. General Charles Horner showed videotapes of two laser-guided bombs sailing through the open doors of a bunker in which an Iraqi Scud missile was stored, and a third plopping down the rooftop air shaft of a tall building in Baghdad -- apparently the headquarters of the Iraqi air force -- and then blowing off the top floors. Bombs and missiles also hit other targets around and even in the heart of Baghdad -- Saddam's presidential palace, for one -- while apparently doing little damage...
Most of the Protestant resurgence is taking place among fervent Fundamentalists and Evangelicals (in the North American sense of those who urge personal commitments to Jesus and strict adherence to the Bible). The spectacular Protestant growth since the 1960s has occurred largely in Pentecostal groups that combine biblical orthodoxy with an innovative stress on emotionalism and miracles. Another worrisome challenge to Catholicism comes from African-rooted spirit cults, which are strong in Brazil and are spreading into Argentina. Since the 1960s, Catholicism has tolerated observance of these popular non-Christian rites by masses of nominal Catholics, while Evangelical converts (many...
Best Cosmic Comeback After appearing to be dead in space, Magellan got cranked up again and sent back the most spectacular pictures ever taken of Venus. They reveal Earth's nearest neighbor to be a caldron of recent volcanic activity -- not a promising spot for vacation homes...