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...This is the most exhausting way to do comedy. Yet unlike those comedians who can barely muster a grin when not onstage, Williams never seems to be down; the performance never ends. His energy levels are prodigious. When he goes cycling, it's for 50 or 60 miles. Lance Armstrong is a cycling partner...
...Turkmenistan. "In a region where fish stocks were once a carefully guarded state secret, and where there is still no comprehensive political agreement over how to share the Caspian Sea and its resources, this breakthrough on sturgeon management marks a dramatic step toward transparency and cooperation," says Jim Armstrong, deputy secretary-general of CITES. Under the unified system, the region's governments can demonstrate that "sturgeon numbers are indeed stable or, in some cases, increasing," says Willem Wijnstekers, the agency's chief. And, he adds, the resumption of caviar sales will bring in much-needed funding "so that the hatcheries...
...married the photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones, who was made the Earl of Snowdon. She told friends that she decided to accept his proposal when she learned that Townsend was to wed a Belgian woman. Snowdon introduced Margaret to an even wider world of artists, actors and writers. But within seven years, their marriage was in decay. Though they would hold things together while their children, David and Sarah, were growing up, both of them were finding companionship elsewhere. For a while Margaret found some with actor Peter Sellers. She reportedly seduced him on the drawing-room sofa at Kensington Palace...
...unhappy love life, following a stroke; in London. Margaret's 1953 romance with royal aide Peter Townsend made newspaper headlines around the world because he was divorced, and after two years she bowed to convention and broke off the relationship. Ironically, her subsequent 1960 marriage to society photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones ended in divorce in 1978. Once a heavy smoker, she suffered at least two earlier strokes and had recently been confined to a wheelchair. DIED. ANNALEE WHITMORE JACOBY FADIMAN, 85, screenwriter, World War II correspondent and co-author of Thunder Out of China with Theodore H. White, by suicide...
Martin A. Armstrong The founder of Princeton Economics International in New Jersey allegedly defrauded Japanese investors of nearly $1 billion, mostly in risky currency trading. He has been jailed since January 2000 for contempt after failing to turn over gold bars, antiques and computers containing information about the case...