Meanwhile, Iraq is currently awaiting the results of provincial polls held on 20 April - thefirst elections since thelastUS troops withdrew at the end of December 2011.
Last year she became thefirst Indian woman to reach the fourth round oftheUS Open, although she went out in the second round ofthe recent Australian Open.
World number one Tiger Woods, who won his third major and thefirstof his three US Open titles by a record 15 shots when it was last held at Pebble Beach in 2000, began with eight straight pars and found thefirst 11 greens in regulation as he demonstrated a more controlled long game than in recent times.
Last week it emerged that theUS economy grew faster than expected in thefirst three months of 2001, at a rate of 2% annually, compared to growth of only 1% in thelast three months of 2000.
Yesterday in our NUvention Web class, thefirstof its second quarter this year, teams kicked it off by telling us what they learned last quarter and what they were running as experiments.
Many people scoffed when first Citigroup and then theUS Energy Information Administration issued reports last year projecting that theUS could become completely independent of imports from outside of North America by 2020.