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Remember when researching a seventh-grade paper on the Eiffel Tower meant trudging to the school library and lifting--I mean, paraphrasing--passages from the hefty encyclopedia? Even in the world of Google, a good encyclopedia can still be a student's best friend. And the latest electronic versions wisely make use of the Web. In some cases, the online version is even better than...
...Soviets also destroyed the bell tower, removing the bells and selling them to the industrialist Charles Crane—who then gave them to Harvard as a gift...
...coalition paid al-Sadr scant attention until two weeks ago, when an American helicopter tried to knock down a Shi'ite banner from a telecommunications tower in Sadr City. Al-Sadr was able to mobilize tens of thousands of Shi'ites in Baghdad's largest street protest since the end of the war. Even so, a Pentagon official in Iraq says, the CPA has not yet got the full measure of al-Sadr. With his vision of Islamic rule in Iraq, his deep hatred of Americans and his rapidly growing army, al-Sadr is, according to this official, "the most...
...dazzled by the lights of Las Vegas that he didn't notice the furtive glances of the tourists gathering around him. Trying to unwind after a few days of intense training in August, the basketball sensation had just taken a ride on the roller coaster atop the Stratosphere tower--he was lucky there wasn't a maximum height limit to get on--and now he was gazing out over the gaudiest stretch of urban landscape in America. He marveled at the brightly illuminated replicas of the Eiffel Tower, the Manhattan skyline, the dazzling fountains of Rome. "Las Vegas...
...stuck. The room is filling with smoke. I'm scared." PETER ALDERMAN in an e-mail to his mother before he died, sent on his BlackBerry at 9:25 a.m. from the north tower of the World Trade Center, quoted in a newly released 9/11 transcript...