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...murder of an American tourist in 1975; in Kathmandu, Nepal. Also known as the "Serpent" and the "Bikini Killer," the half-Indian, half-Vietnamese Sobhraj is alleged to be one of Asia's deadliest serial killers, preying on Western backpackers on the hippie circuit in the 1970s. Brilliant, charming and fluent in seven languages, he taunted police with their inability to catch or keep him, breaking out of jail four times. He is accused of killing another backpacker in Nepal, as well as five more in Thailand, two in India and one in Pakistan. Sobhraj vowed to appeal, claiming...
...interest is nonexistent. Larry Bolt Fort Collins, Colorado, U.S. Schumacher's superiority is not hurting Formula One; it is the pinnacle of motor racing, and viewers should understand they are watching history in the making as Schumacher racks up more world championships than any other driver. He is a brilliant competitor with an incredible team supporting him. For the International Automobile Federation (FIA) to create regulations that would hobble him and Ferrari is backward thinking. The sport should be moving forward. It's the job of the other teams, not the FIA, to find a solution to their lack...
...band, replete with tom-tom, lilting flute and wheelchair-using keyboardist, will likely be crooning in Portuguese about "Comandante Che Guevara." "Music is important," says local veteran musician Amadou Bagayoko. "Every celebration is an opportunity to party." And what opportunities. La Refuge is just one gem in Bamako's brilliant music scene, which easily rivals that of Dakar, its more famous neighbor. If you're Bamako-bound, you'll find the beat here: HOTEL WASULU: Oumou Sangare, Mali's feisty feminist diva, is the resident headliner at this famous venue. From the southern Wassoulou region, Sangare casts an electrifying spell...
...days the scientific grapevine had been buzzing with the news that Stephen Hawking, the brilliant physicist whose disease has put him in a wheelchair, heir to the revered Cambridge professorship once held by Isaac Newton, would be making a big announcement at a conference in Dublin, Ireland. Sure enough, last week before an array of TV cameras and hundreds of colleagues at the ordinarily obscure International Conference of General Relativity and Gravitation, Hawking declared that he had solved what he called "a major problem in theoretical physics." Black holes, he said, do not forever annihilate all traces of what falls...
...He’s as fantastic in person as he seems,” she said. “A truly extraordinary person: brilliant, magnetic, and humble. The sky’s the limit...