KEEPING WATCH
“Human natur’!” said the night-watchman,
gazing fixedly at a pretty girl in a passing waterman’s
skiff. “Human natur’!”
He sighed, and, ...
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W. W. Jacobs, remembered today almost exclusively for his horror story "The Monkey's Paw" (The Lady of the Barge, 1902), was one of the most popular English humorists of the early twentieth century. H...
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Controlling the air is what F-16 pilot Maj. Paul Miller does for a living. He's now learning how to fight a ground war.Four years into the war in Iraq, the challenges of fighting insurgents are cha...
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Police kept watch at portals to Beijing's Tiananmen Square on
Monday, the 18th anniversary of the military crackdown on democracy
protests, stopping people and checking their bags in what was...
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Police kept watch at portals to Beijing's Tiananmen Square on
Monday, the 18th anniversary of the military crackdown on demo...
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Japanese Finance Minister Koji Omi said Tuesday that he agreed
with his South Korean counterpart Kwon O Kyu to continue closely
monitoring movements in global financial markets during their d...
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(EDS: ADDING INFO)
Japanese Finance Minister Koji Omi said he and U.S. Treasury
Secretary Henry Paulson held talks on the phone Tuesday over the
recent volatile movements in global financial...
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The United States will continue to monitor China's ''very
active'' missile development program, the head of the Defense
Department's Missile Defense Agency said Tuesday.
Air Force Lt. Gen....
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(EDS: ADDING COMMENTS)
Police kept watch at portals to Beijing's Tiananmen Square on
Monday, the 18th anniversary of the military crackdown on democracy
protests, stopping people and checkin...
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A police officer pleaded guilty Wednesday to helping escort what he thought was a heroin shipment in a corruption sting where undercover FBI agents posed as mobsters.Detective Thomas Simcox is amon...
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KOLKATA, India, Jan 30 (Reuters) - Workers sprayed roads
and markets in Kolkata with disinfectants and culled thousands
of birds as authorities in eastern India battled to stop an
outbreak of bird...
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Photos found with the body of a climber found on Mount Hood have increased worries about how long his two missing companions could survive in the brutal environment, a sheriff said Tuesday."Looking...
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Keeping Watch
W(illiam) W(ymark) Jacobs
Warplanes keep watch on Iraqi insurgents
