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...authorities believe that the bombers acted alone. Investigators have focused on the explosives. Contrary to initial reports that said military-style high explosive were used, the authorities concluded that the bombs were made of tatp, a material popular with al-Qaeda because it can be cooked in a bathtub out of common chemicals. The bombs weighed only 2.7 kg each, according to a classified briefing for U.S. Senators last week. British investigators have begun interrogating el-Nashar, who studied at North Carolina State University in 2000 and was awarded his Ph.D. in pharmaceutical enzymology by Leeds University in May. Someone...
...south of Alice Springs, along a dirt track. Each luxury tent has a shaded veranda?the ideal place to enjoy a drink and watch the sun set over the Simpson Desert. The bathroom is a corrugated-iron extension at the rear of the tent, and features a stylish, freestanding bathtub open to the sky. Excursions include visits to rock art and fossil sites and to Chambers Pillar, a sandstone monolith 40 km away. There are also hunting tours, where tribal elders instruct you in the gathering of "bush tucker"?local foods like grubs and wild plants. Meanwhile, at Titjikala...
...August is the occasion of the Elvis International Tribute, a week in which 15,000 Presley fans convene to watch a competition among Elvis impersonators, to participate in an Elvis trivia contest and to pay homage. Crowds also flock to the Wild and Wacky Raft Race in Miami, the bathtub race in San Diego and the equally exciting Hermit Crab Races in Ocean City, N.J. In Illinois' state fair there is both a hog-calling and a husband-calling contest, in which a woman calls for her husband, who has been calling hogs. First prize was taken by Kathy Lingren...
...terms, a light German comedy. Which means that Eisi, who is married to a woman too busy to pamper him, is ready for some fat-and-sassy attention. Which means that when they eventually come to intimacies, things turn out just fine: softcolored lights, unforced endearments, a jolly bathtub wallow and the strains of Marianne's favorite pop tune, Sugarbaby, percolating in their ears. This is about where Writer-Director Percy Adlon (Celeste, The Swing) gets carried away with his odd-couple romance. Gooey gels clot the lens, and the camera sways without reason like an inebriated gyroscope; bring...
...definitely not soap or anything that should be in the bathtub,” Beltran recalls...