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Four a.m. rolls around, and it’s finally time to write that thesis—or at least that thesis title. After sitting down at your computer, you open a blank document and carefully set down your pithy words. You stare at the screen for a while, only slightly distracted by imaginings of deep-fried foods and ice cream. You center a colon on the page but suddenly your eyes alight upon a web ad for a board game: Candyland. You see an article about the latest possibility for a Yard Fest performer: Jimmy Eat World. No more...
...remember is that when I fell, I looked down at my foot and it had turned the other way. The rest is just a blank.' EDUARDO DA SILVA, striker for English soccer team Arsenal, on the horrific, season-ending broken ankle he suffered after being tackled during a Feb. 24 match against Birmingham...
...novel Empire of the Sun - and the millions more who saw Steven Spielberg's film version of it - will recognize Ballard's descriptions of the deprivations he suffered at the Lunghua detention camp after the Japanese army overran Shanghai in 1943. They'll recall, too, the blank, dreamlike gaze with which he absorbed the horrors unfolding around him: at the age of 14, he watched as a group of defeated Japanese soldiers, "aware that their own lives would shortly end, and that they were free to do anything they wanted and inflict any pain," casually strangled a Chinese...
...this enormous cache of personal data is evident from some of Interpol's recent actions. In January last year, 11 people presented their Cypriot passports at Monterrey airport in Mexico. The numbers that flashed up on Interpol's database revealed that these documents came from a batch of 850 blank passports stolen in Cyprus; it turned out that the men were Iraqi citizens trying to slip into the U.S. Last April, masked gunmen executed a jewelry heist in Dubai. They left behind DNA samples, which matched those that Interpol had in its database for two Serbian armed robbers...
...steps from the room's front exit. The couple shivered, hoping to evade the gunman's path. "But he was just stepping up the aisles, just shooting people, just like that," Santos says, imitating Kazmierczak's motion with his arms to show how the attacker shot students "at point-blank range...