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...Awash in the devotion accorded PRINCESS DIANA after her death, many a commentator surmised that a secular saintliness had enveloped her. Now Harper's Bazaar editor in chief LIZ TILBERIS claims that Diana gave off New Agey emanations. In her autobiography No Time to Die, excerpted in Britain's Daily Mail, Tilberis describes Diana's healing powers, which both women referred to as a "white light." Diana used the term metaphorically, but Tilberis maintains that a call from the princess boosted her platelet count while she was undergoing chemotherapy to cure her ovarian cancer. "I believe the princess was single...
...into something positively deadly. Outbreaks caused by the new variant exploded almost simultaneously in three far-flung locations: France, Sierra Leone and Boston. The flu struck with a ferocity that shocked doctors, who feared this strange new pathogen might be an airborne version of the Black Death. Patients died awash in blood and gore, literally drowning as fluid filled their lungs...
...Royals are able to show their emotions when it comes to losing the things that are really important to them ? like the 44-year-old Royal Yacht Britannia. In contrast to the studiously stony faces shown at September's funeral, Thursday saw Elizabeth, Philip and the kids practically awash with tears. Princess Anne got out her hankie, the Queen's chin was seen to tremble, and her husband wiped his eyes for perhaps the first time in public at a ceremony to say good-bye to their magnificent floating holiday home...
What a spectacle, a feast for the senses! Foxboro Stadium, the home of the New England Patriots, was awash with people, filling not only the regular football seating but also cramming the playing field. The stage, an enormous construction dominated by speakers, lights and immense curtains, was set up where one endzone would be. When the Stones took the stage, the curtains parted part way and a gigantic oval-shaped screen literally exploded into existence, shooting flares out over the audience...
...single organization. Turner, founder of CNN and vice chairman of Time Warner, says he did not realize its rank at the time he chose the billion-dollar figure. He prefers to focus on how important it is for wealthy people to share their bounty when "the world is just awash in money" because of rising stock markets. And Turner says he hopes his gift will encourage others to support the U.N. and the programs it operates worldwide, which range from removing land mines to providing inoculations for children...