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...Action on the Mexican border has been swift: Pedestrians crossing into the U.S., once free to pass through after answering a few cursory questions, are now subject to intensive scrutiny. And on October 1st, in a procedural change planned long before the September attacks, the INS began requiring Mexican nationals to present a new "laser visa" at the border, imprinted with a photo and other imbedded information...
...second wedding ceremony, nose-picking and Miss Sweetie Poo dominated the “Eleventh 1st Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony” held last evening in Sanders Theatre before a paper-airplane throwing audience, whose members clearly enjoyed themselves...
...soul crooners Maxwell and Bilal want you for your mind. Maxwell's laid-back CD Now lacks the fire and immediacy its title seems to promise, but the immaculate production and Maxwell's thoughtful, nuanced vocals raise the album above standard R.-and-B. fare. Bilal's smart debut, 1st Born Second, has an admirably adventurous spirit, blending hip-hop, scat, reggae and rock. On a few tracks, Bilal's eclectic musical vision flies out of control, but on the best songs, such as Sometimes, he conjures up gritty grooves that keep his spacey melodies tethered securely to planet Earth...
...have us remember her first as the sober-minded and politically adroit monarch who confronted the growing might of Rome. Following a highly successful run at the British Museum in London, this show brings its ancient treasures and new insights to Chicago's Field Museum. In statuary of the 1st century B.C., Cleopatra is voluptuous but coldly imperial. In pornography produced by her enemies she is a harlot coupling with a crocodile. The Queen arrives in all her guises, including clips from Taylor's 1963 extravaganza, on Oct. 20. More demure female images can be seen in the portraits...
Vice-Admiral Yevgeni Chernov knows the pain and anguish of losing a nuclear submarine. Once, as commander of the 1st Nuclear Submarine Flotilla of the Soviet Union's Northern Fleet, Chernov kept his flag on the Komsomolets. In April 1989, when Chernov was a professor at the Naval College, his former flagship sank in the Norwegian Sea. For the last nine years, the 71-year-old Hero of the Soviet Union who spent 33 years in nuclear submarines has been heading the Charity Foundation in Memory of the Komsomolets (echernov@online.ru). But Chernov today is focused on the fate...