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...picture hasn't changed: authorities still believe that the terrorism linchpins in the region are 48-year-old Malaysian statistician Azahari bin Husin and his former student Nurdin Mohammed Top, 37. They are suspected of playing key roles as planners and bombmakers in the 2002 Bali blasts, the August 2003 bombing of Jakarta's JW Marriott Hotel, the September 2004 attack on the Australian embassy in the capital and the Oct. 1 bombings. While police don't have a smoking gun linking the two fugitives to the latest attacks, they say that the type of explosives and other materials used...
...Then there's 95-year-old Kozo Haraguchi, who in August broke the 100-m-dash record for 95- to 99-year-olds with a time of 21.69 seconds?0.35 seconds faster than the record he'd set just two months earlier. A former craftsman of paper doors, Haraguchi didn't take up running until the age of 65, which still left him 30 years to prepare for his record-breaking sprint. Haraguchi, who also holds the record for 90- to 94-year-olds, says he hopes his run will inspire fellow seniors to unleash their energy. "There...
...DIED. AUGUST WILSON, 60, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright; of liver cancer, with which he was diagnosed in June; in Seattle. In the year before his death, Wilson saw the debut of Radio Golf, the last of his 10-play cycle, one for each decade, on the black experience and African-Americans' struggles with the legacy of slavery in 20th century America. Most of his works were set in Pittsburgh, his childhood hometown. While some critics faulted his plays for what they saw as a crippling focus on race, most hailed Wilson's unerring ear for dialogue and emotion...
When I interviewed AUGUST WILSON in April in New Haven, Conn., he seemed like a man rejuvenated. The last of his 10-play cycle about the black experience in 20th century America was about to open at the Yale Repertory Theater, and he was looking forward to moving on, to projects he had long put off--a comedic play, a half-started novel, maybe even the movies. But just four months later, liver cancer was diagnosed, and he died last week at age 60, ensuring that his life would forever be defined by the great work that he spent more...
...best course of action is not to treat this sort of flu but to prevent it. Preliminary results, released in August, of an experimental vaccine against bird flu suggest that a high-dose vaccine given in two shots a month apart would yield the best response. "What is sobering is how much was required, which puts an added pressure on vaccine production," says Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases...