[Kathy in Alaska]

A Kiowa reconnaissance helicopter flies over a US soldier searching the area where one US soldier was killed, and two others wounded, when a bomb exploded near an army convoy on a highway just west of Baghdad.(AFP/Stan Honda)

US soldiers care for a soldier from the Third Armoured Division who was wounded when an improvised device exploded near a bank in the upper-class Mansour district of Baghdad(AFP/Karim Sahib)

[Kathy in Alaska]

Yoshimi Ogawa, president of Index Corp., shows off her company's surprise hit 'Bowlingual,' with her pet dog Meru at her office Friday, Mar. 14, 2003. Bowlingual, a gadget that the company developed with toy-maker Takara Co., deciphers the barks, growls and eomotions of a dog. Takara Co. is planning a similar gadget for cats called Meowlingual. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)