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Lumbering low over Stone Age villages and thick jungles, troop-carrying helicopters swarmed across the wild central highlands ...

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For the first time since the War, Tammany Hall faces a long lean winter of political starvation, not of four months but of ...

Poison is the weapon; the motive, gain. The author first shows the victim's death, then the murderer's ...

At noon, with the sun blazing down, Australia's best bowler let go with the first ball. It zipped in nearly as fast as a ...

And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.—ACTS ...

When last noticed by the public eye, Lewis L. Strauss was in a position of some embarrassment: the Senate refused to ...

How do we come up with our 50 best? Short answer: we take your suggestions, probe friends and colleagues about their favorite online haunts and then surf like mad. This year's finalists are a mix of ...

Little Del Northway, 4, of Houston was not happy. The kids would not play with him. He ran to his mother crying, "Why are ...