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...arrests of Mitchell and Barzee concluded the strange nine-month odyssey that began last summer amid a string of high-profile kidnappings that had set an already jittery nation on hyperalert. Smart's abduction was every parent's worst nightmare: she was plucked from the safety of her own bed, with a sister watching and her parents sleeping nearby. Though the 24-hour media vigil had long ago moved on, the family never gave up hope; Elizabeth's uncle Tom was even quoted in the paper on the very morning of her rescue, castigating police for slowing down the search...
...lucky ones, though the 55-year-old woman lying in her narrow metal bed in the pneumonia ward of Guangzhou's Nanfang Hospital doesn't look it. Ye Qitian's breath comes in ragged gasps, her gray-white hair is bedraggled, and she can only open her right eye halfway as she speaks to visitors. On a rainy afternoon last week, the Chinese housewife says she is recovering from what her doctors have identified as atypical pneumonia, a mysterious disease that has plagued southern China for months and is suspected to have erupted into the outside world in late February...
...Shisheng. His wife died after an agonizing three-year siege of cancer. Soon after, Charles left town on a KMT assignment in Wuhu; he didn't see his sons again for 40 years. "I didn't even remember him leaving," Shisheng recalls. "I only knew I got out of bed and he was gone...
...collection of left-handed guitars. He played one onstage with Pink Floyd, hobnobbed with various Beatles and had Procul Harum play parties in his North London home - anything to avoid writing. "I'm a man of obsessive enthusiasms," he said. "Great bursts of energy followed by two days in bed." Amid a scandalous affair with married novelist Sally Emerson, he was twice stopped for DWK (driving while kissing). In 1991 he married Jane Belson, a level-headed British barrister, but retained one obsession: making Hitchhiker into a movie. Simpson chronicles that campaign, which culminated in the writer's 1999 move...
There’s a free maid service that makes my bed every morning and changes my sheets once a week. This is nothing short of incredible. I’ve been here a month, and my sheets have been changed four more times than they were last semester...