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June 20, 2002
If you fly heavy, you'll pay heavy
Southwest instructs its agents to enforce a rule that requires large passengers to buy a second ticket in some situations.

Was her timing too good?
A stock sale just in the nick of time swarms the home expert with questions and allegations. Some wonder if her company will soon feel the heat, too.

War bleeds into Colombia's poor barrios
Medellin, long the country's most dangerous city, is in the crossfire of rebels, paramilitaries, police.

Bloodshed confounds Bush plans
Suicide bombings shatter plans for a presidential speech outlining a Mideast peace proposal.

House panel okays guns in cockpits
WASHINGTON -- Lawmakers moved closer to a confrontation with the Bush administration over guns in cockpits as a House panel endorsed legislation that could arm more than 1,000 pilots in the next two years.

Genetic fingerprinting fails to identify anthrax source
WASHINGTON -- Sophisticated genetic fingerprinting that investigators hoped would help crack the anthrax case has yet to yield results. With the most promising avenue gone, the FBI is expanding its scientific inquiry, law enforcement officials said Wednesday.

Sept. 10 messages decoded too late
WASHINGTON -- The National Security Agency intercepted two messages on the eve of the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon warning that something was going to happen the next day, but the messages were not translated until Sept. 12, senior U.S. intelligence officials told the Washington Post on Wednesday.

Karzai takes risk by embracing warlords
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Hamid Karzai adopted a risky political strategy Wednesday with the Afghan leader's decision to include several warlords in his inner circle and retain several key ethnic Tajiks in top government posts.

Fighting terror notebook
Panel okays test of guns in cockpits



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