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...elderly resident of nearby Strasshof, who called police after finding her roaming the neighborhood. Police said Kampusch's alleged captor, Wolfgang Priklopil, 44, who killed himself by jumping in front of a train the day she escaped, had held her in the basement of his home. RECOVERING. Albert Ho, 55, Hong Kong lawyer and Democratic Party vice chairman, after being severely injured by three baton-wielding men who attacked him in a McDonald's on Aug. 19; in Hong Kong. Although no suspects have been named, Ho, a member of the Legislative Council and one of the city's best...
...features. His deadpan comic sense gives his work a retro-European feel that suits the collection. Tenenbaums, his most agreeable offering, boasts a stellar cast and the emotional edginess of a real-life domestic epic. Among the extras is a revealing documentary portrait of Anderson by cinema verité pioneer Albert Maysles...
...Bang; they're just too faint for any telescope now in existence. But the universe itself has supplied a way of boosting a telescope's magnifying power. The theory of relativity says massive objects warp the space around them, diverting light rays from their original path. In the 1930s Albert Einstein realized this meant a star, say, could act as a lens, distorting and amplifying the light from something behind it. In practice, he said, it probably happens so rarely that we will never...
...Albert Einstein suggested that gravity from a massive foreground object could distort and magnify background objects...
Others may lie for more practical reasons. In 1965, when handyman Albert DeSalvo told police he was the Boston Strangler, he confessed to having brutally murdered 13 women. Some experts now suspect that DeSalvo, who at the time was in custody on lesser charges, hoped the lavish claims would bolster his rep in prison and save him from execution via an insanity plea...