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...between yawns and yoga stretches, Jacqueline McKenzie will listen to her language tapes. You'd think the 37-year-old graduate of Sydney's National Institute of Dramatic Art would be a dab hand at American accents by now, but you try saying such lines as "statistically significant disease cluster" in impeccable shotgun Seattle-style. As agent Diana Skouris in the Francis Ford Coppola-produced TV sci-fi series The 4400, McKenzie does that and more. The highest-rating debut on U.S. cable last year, and a surprise hit from Australia to the U.K., the show introduced agent Skouris exercising...
...killing, mobs of Shi'ite students rioted at the college of pharmacy, blaming al-Hiti and his bodyguard-both of them Sunnis-for al-Rubaiyi's murder and vowing revenge. Al-Hiti and his bodyguard deny having anything to do with the murder. As the violence spread to a cluster of adjacent colleges, Sunni faculty members had to be evacuated by security guards, colleagues and students. When the rioters showed up, they trashed classrooms and teachers' offices. Then came the reprisals: the next day, a Shi'ite law student who was close to al-Rubaiyi was found dead, fueling suspicions...
Some injuries tend to cluster at different ages. Doctors report seeing a lot of heel problems in kids 9 to 12 years old, elbow problems in kids 10 to 12 and knee injuries in kids 12 to 14. Gender also seems to play a role. Girls, for reasons that are not clear, are more likely than boys to tear their anterior cruciate ligament (ACL)--a tough ribbon of tissue that holds the knee together. "Twenty years ago, it was rare for someone under age 15 to have ACL surgery," says Dr. Daniel Green, a pediatric orthopedic surgeon at the Hospital...
...sun—hidden behind a thick blanket of soggy grey clouds for the first six hours of baseball—had emerged, and was smiling down as Ian Wallace scampered home with the winning run. A cluster of red caps was there to greet him and boisterously celebrate a walk-off victory, a Sunday sweep, and a guaranteed share of the division title...
Reports of the event stirred amateur stargazers from coast to coast, inspiring them to stare expectantly last week through shiny new binoculars and small telescopes at a region near the Pleiades, a tight star cluster in the eastern sky. Like Morris and Edberg, all hoped to catch a glimpse of the itinerant mass of frozen water, rock and gas whose periodic reappearance was first predicted by English Astronomer Edmond Halley...