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...Ivan After skirting the western coasts of Cuba and the Cayman Islands, Hurricane Ivan dialed up its ferocity for two heart-stopping days last week, squeezing through the narrow channel that separates the Caribbean Sea from the Gulf of Mexico as a monstrous Category 5 storm with winds approaching 260 km/h. Fortunately, by the time Ivan made landfall in the U.S. state of Alabama, its winds had gentled to 210 km/h - but that was plenty bad enough. Those who rode out the storm told harrowing tales of cringing in the dark and hearing winds that screamed like jet engines. They...
This was no longer the carefree young man he knew, Shakr thought, the son who loved to dance and go to parties. Now whenever the music channel was on television, Omar got up and left the room. One day he sternly told his father, who works for an American company, that the U.S. was the "enemy'' of Islam. Shakr's concern deepened. Finally he told friends at work, "I have to rescue Omar. I have to bring back...
...suffered while performing a stunt; in Charlotte, North Carolina. A favored subject of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, who admired his "crash-and-burn" lifestyle, he was most famous for a chopper he built and dubbed "Grease Monkey." died. ALASTAIR MORTON, 66, South African-born executive who oversaw construction of the Channel Tunnel linking France and England; in Bosham, England. His leadership helped the project survive a series of political and financial crises before the 50-km tunnel finally opened in 1994. DIED. E. FAY JONES, 83, architect whose designs offered an elegant interpretation of Frank Lloyd Wright's style; in Fayetteville...
...managing director of MTV Asia to co-found the Singapore-based online-music store Soundbuzz. The venture made little progress for four years, but after iTunes proved a commercial success last year, Saronwala is trying again. "The labels have seen that online can be a real, viable distribution channel," says Saronwala. "The domestic labels as well as the internationals?everybody has pretty much embraced it wholeheartedly." Soundbuzz signed licensing agreements with several major music labels earlier this year and relaunched their online store in Singapore in July. Users can now download tracks for $1.16 each from Soundbuzz...
...chutzpah: it's demanding the power to directly elect Hong Kong's chief executive and all the seats in Legco as soon as legally possible, proposals Beijing has already nixed. A strong showing for the democrats this Sunday would deliver a message Beijing is loath to receive, through a channel?free elections?it can barely tolerate...