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...saga: Elizabeth Smart returned home Wednesday, nine months after being abducted from her bedroom in the middle of the night. Edward Smart, her father, fought back tears of joy as he faced the media, issuing an impassioned plea for the U.S. House of Representatives to pass mandate a national "Amber Alert" system - the response program the Smarts credit with Elizabeth's safe return. Elizabeth's story will add fuel to the debate already raging over the program...
...While Department of Justice reports show kidnappings are on the decline, you'd never know it from the ongoing media frenzy. Recent abductions have shocked neighborhoods in Virginia, Texas and California - and dominated headlines for days at a time. One phrase keeps coming up: "Amber Alert." A signal designed to tap into Americans' sense of community, the program provides cops, motorists and the public at large with information about specific abductions - and asks for their help in finding missing children. For the past two months we've heard a lot about Amber Alert, but how, exactly, does the system function...
...about a week old-the fish still have their eyes and tails," he says, turning over a soupy mixture between his fingers. "But they'll all decompose soon enough, don't worry." Descending, he springs to another wooden vat and turns a valve, filling a snifter with a warm amber liquid. This is prized nuoc mam, fermented for more than a year. Bang holds the liquid up to the light, swirls it around, takes a sniff of the pungent bouquet, puts the glass to his lips-and gives a satisfied smile...
...have to question your faith in human goodness over a hurricane. As Storm Stories host Jim Cantore puts it, "People can accept that the weather can get nasty. They can't accept that someone can take a plane and crash it into a building." In an era of amber alerts and terrorist warnings, it's enough to make a person weather engaged. --By James Poniewozik
...post did a great job of defending her [Peljto], and the guards also helped out really well,” said BC guard Amber Jacobs. “She’s a great player, and we had a good team effort of shutting her down...