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...scale and sophistication of the attacks, which began at about 9:30 p.m. local time on Wednesday as gunmen stormed hotels with AK-47s and grenades, became clear on Thursday and Friday: over 155 people are reported dead, and more than 300 are injured. The injured were brought to local hospitals from the sites of the attacks, which included the Taj and another luxury hotel, the main railway terminus, a caf? and two hospitals. Among the police, 14 were killed and 25 injured. The Maharashtra chief minister, Vilasrao Deshmukh, estimates that there were 20 to 25 terrorists involved, seven...
David Jacobs, an Australian who works in New Delhi as head of India operations for the law firm Baker & McKenzie, was among those inside The Oberoi since Wednesday night. He was one of 148 people - hostages held by the terrorists or people trapped in their hotel rooms - who were brought out safely from the hotel; 24 others were killed. Jacobs described his harrowing experience - at one point, he said he had composed goodbye messages to his family - in an exclusive interview with TIME. (See pictures here of the two days of terror in Mumbai...
...star's foot. This was clearly a frightening experience, and the poor Li girls are scared of the sea still, but it is by no means among the first rank of tsunami survival stories. Rather than bringing on an epiphany, this relatively clement brush with death simply brought out the spiritual tendencies that Li had been harboring for years. The tsunami liberated him from the desire to make films...
Contrary to grade school theater productions across the United States, there was no modern-day pie - pumpkin, pecan or otherwise - at the first Thanksgiving celebration in 1621. Pilgrims brought English-style, meat-based recipes with them to the colonies. While pumpkin pie, which is first recorded in a cookbook in 1675, originated from British spiced and boiled squash, it was not popularized in America until the early 1800s. Historians don't know all the dishes the Pilgrims served in the first Thanksgiving feast, but primary documents indicate that pilgrims cooked with fowl and venison - and it's not unlikely that...
...presumably derives from the fact that its last political interference didn't pan out. True, Thaksin - a nemesis of the army in part because his showy, autocratic style was perceived as threatening the influence of Thailand's beloved King - was removed from office. But post-coup elections last year brought to power a party dominated by acolytes of the ousted Premier. In essence, Thailand in late 2008 is back to where it was two years ago: divided and rudderless...