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...Liverpool researcher received permission to X-ray the mummy and discovered some intriguing clues: there was a sliver of bone floating in the brain cavity and a dense area at the base of the skull that may have been a blood clot, suggesting a severe--perhaps deliberately lethal--blow to the back of the head...
...with experimental treatments of glass and fabrics. "It's exciting not to know all the answers before you start," he says. In the tentatively named Art Hotel in London, he's trying to build a glass flue above the fireplace, and glass trees. He would like to do a blow-up theatrical set, where high-pressure pumps inflate and deflate the set pieces as needed...
...Uighurs, China's Muslim minority, look to the U.S. to provide moral support in their fight against oppression by Beijing. But Washington may have dealt their cause a blow in exchange for China's backing in the war against terror. On Sept. 11, the U.S. persuaded the United Nations to add to its list of international terrorist groups a little-known Uighur independence organization, the East Turkestan Islamic Movement. The U.S. State Department linked the group to more than 200 terrorist acts in China's predominantly Muslim province of Xinjiang. But according to foreign diplomats in Beijing, ETIM...
...Adolf Hitler. ("The man is like an electric shock," says an ever-more-admiring Shulse.) But Address Unknown is more than a portrait of a failed friendship or a tale of Nazism's rise. Without giving away too much, let me say that a death is avenged and a blow struck against a rising evil, both with great subtlety. And the weapons, fittingly, are letters. Now the real story. Address Unknown first appeared in 1938 in the U.S. magazine Story and caused a sensation. A year later it was issued as a book, became a bestseller and was promptly banned...
...Confidence At a meeting of the Palestinian Legislative Council, the entire cabinet of Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority submitted its resignation when it became apparent that the majority of council representatives would support a vote of no confidence in the cabinet. The resignation was seen as a severe blow to Arafat, who must now submit to the council names for a new cabinet by Sept. 26. Council member Mohammed Hurrani, though part of Arafat's Fatah movement, called the resignation "a great victory." NEPAL Maoist Mayhem Nepal's guerrilla war intensified as Maoist rebels killed 58 policemen and soldiers...