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...Hawkins (Nick Stahl), an escapee from a chain gang, is burying his mother outside her dust-blown shack when the traveling show rolls by. There's more to Ben than he lets on (he can heal the sick by touch), and also more to this carnival. Besides the hootchy-kootchy dancers and bearded lady, there's a real psychic and a comatose but sentient telepath; and Samson answers to an unseen superior known only as "Management," who orders him to hire Ben as a roustabout because "he was expected." Meanwhile, in California, ambitious minister Brother Justin Crowe (Clancy Brown...
...compensation totaling $2.7 billion to families of the 270 victims of the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland. France lifted a threatened veto of the vote after striking a deal with Libya for increased payments to relatives of 170 victims of a French UTA plane blown up over Niger in 1989. Burden of Proof IRAN The International Atomic Energy Agency gave Tehran a deadline of Oct. 31 to prove its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes, or risk being referred to the U.N. Security Council for possible sanctions. In the past six months, IAEA inspectors discovered...
Unlike little Sojourner, Spirit and Opportunity are full-blown Mars cars, about the size of golf carts and fairly stuffed with instruments--including a bristle of cameras atop an almost 5-ft. antenna mast that will provide an eye-level view of the terrain, as opposed to the shin-level view Pathfinder provided. Like their predecessor, they will be visiting areas of the planet that scientists believe were once deluged with water, precisely the kind of spots extraterrestrial organisms would, at least in theory, love. If Mars ever harbored life, the 90 or more days Spirit and Opportunity will spend...
...This family outing was meticulously planned. Police say Hanif, Fahmida and Farheen had even made a trial run in the same taxi the previous day, with Ansari. They overlooked just one detail: while Ansari's driver was blown up along with his taxi at Zaveri Bazaar, the Hanifs' cabbie stepped out of his cab for a bite and so lived to provide the police with a sketch of a family that an informant would later identify as the Hanifs...
...countries' exports more expensive on international markets. Similarly, at the Democrat contenders' debate last week in Albuquerque, N.M., Vermont Governor Howard Dean said "we cannot continue to ship our jobs to countries where they get paid 50? an hour." But so far, no Democrat has yet made a full-blown attack on the trade deficit with China or suggested protectionist policies to reverse it. If that position continues to hold, give the last President some credit. Bill Clinton was one of the few politicians (in either party) who truly believed the intellectually unanswerable case that free trade, by encouraging economies...