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...Lane plays Jennifer Marsh, an FBI agent in Portland, Ore., who tracks cybercrime: mostly identity theft and porn downloads. A new site is different: the work of a sickie who shows a kitten on the screen, then, shortly thereafter, one dead kitty. This guy is smart, deranged and, even with all the resources at Marsh's command, untraceable...
...Florida, McCain will have to defend his precarious frontrunner standing on several fronts. He must argue that despite his decades in Washington, he is an agent of change. He must convince voters increasingly worried about the economy that Romney's private sector success is not as important as his record of government experience. (And Fred Thompson may not hang in long enough to be spoiler among conservative Florida Republicans.) Even more dramatically, McCain must make the case to moderates and independents that he, not Giuliani, best represents their interests. "My guess is that we'll split the moderates with Giuliani...
...hard work from an early age. When his father left the family, Lewis' mother Byrdine supported him and his sister in Columbus, Ga., by working double shifts as a nurse. Following her example, Lewis worked his way through Georgia State University as an accountant and an airline-reservation agent...
...imposing Victorian town house that has an air of the Empire about it, even though its owners do not. The house - which has eight bedrooms and six bathrooms spread over six floors, an elevator and a garden - belongs to a Swiss family who, according to Tom Tangney, estate agent for realtor Knight Frank, make their money in finance. Tired of paying the upkeep on a place they hardly use, they've put it on the market for $18.5 million. And at that price, "I expect the buyer will also be non-British," says Tangney...
...road wasn't always easy, however. Folkman's first compound, which biotech companies rushed to test in people at the beginning of this decade, proved less effective in patients than in mice, giving skeptics yet another reason to doubt the approach. But that agent, dismissed by U.S. researchers, eventually won approval in 2005 for treating lung cancer in China, where it is extending the lives of non-small-cell lung cancer patients...