1.   After the Storm King incident, Babbitt personally joined crews fighting fires in Colorado and Washington state, and made a study of the issue.

2.   But big states that fear irrelevance from going last, and traditional opponents of giving party leaders more power, are joining to fight the proposal.

3.   Gashi, a farmer, said he sent his family to Albania when he joined the Kosovo Liberation Army, guerrillas fighting for the independence of Kosovo.

4.   In Egypt, there have been several recent reports of young Egyptian men trying to sneak into Israel to join Palestinians fighting against Israel.

5.   Shortages mean less time for training and more time spent cleaning the post, an annoyance to troops who joined to fight.

6.   A Sudanese army brigadier and some of the troops under his command have joined rebels fighting the Khartoum regime, the rebels said in a statement Wednesday.

7.   We are joined to fight against bloodthirsty killers.