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...nightly by about 50% of Iraqi TV viewers, isn't flashy, with spartan sets and no studio audience. But it does have Simon Cowell's Iraqi alter ego, Muhammad Hadi, whose slams have a local accent. His dis of one hopeful's off-key song about a hummingbird: "Slaughtered bird is masculine. You kept saying it is feminine." BILAL, playing an oud, had no such trials. In a performance dedicated to his country, the 12-year-old from Mosul made the judges cry and himself a favorite, singing Ya Iraq!, about the suffering of Iraqi children. The music...
...that sounds like a perfect retirement gig, caretakers are quick to point out that it's not all bucolic bliss. "Some property owners want servants, not caretakers," says Keith Cliver, 53, who with his wife Emily Moddelmog, 37, currently caretakes at the Oasis, a bird sanctuary in a former pecan orchard in Benson, Ariz. "We worked at an estate in Las Vegas where the owner eventually got rid of all the help and wanted the two of us to do everything 24/7." They quit shortly thereafter...
...Agrestic, Calif., whose husband dies, leaving her with two sons and too little insurance money. So she starts dealing marijuana to bored salarymen. Soon Nancy discovers a whole illicit world of suburban toking: a young dealer gripes to her that his inventory was tapped out by stoners watching the bird documentary Winged Migration at the multiplex. Far from hardening her, her tiptoe into the grass has Nancy "beginning to think I am extremely naive...
...notify anyone about Strep. suis infections, much less share information. The Ministry of Health says it has the situation under control, although suspicions about China's openness on disease outbreaks, dating back to the 2003 SARS crisis, linger. "The Chinese have got to be transparent," says Robert Webster, a bird-flu expert who has worked with China in the past. If not, neighboring countries?and the world?could pay the price...
...Designed the First Eye? The eye couldn't possibly be the product of accidental mutations, say Darwin's critics. Sure, a bird with sharper eyes might catch more prey and have more offspring, but where did the first eye come from? How could a process of gradual improvements produce a complex organ that needs all its parts-pinhole, lens, light-sensitive surface-in order to work? It's no accident, says Michael Behe, author of Darwin's Black Box, that the eye resembles a camera, which everybody instantly recognizes as a product someone designed. "If it looks, walks and quacks...