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...Clancy originally planned to raise money to send Griffin, an avid collector and expert on Irish books and Celtic literature, to Ireland. But the weather there is lousy, according to Griffin, so he decided to head Down Under for a few weeks. Which was fine with the student benefactors...
...brash, but also somewhat reticent. At first Griffin wants only to gush about the upstanding young van drivers he teaches at PBHA but eventually opens up about his other interests. He is a book collector and former engineer who has taught at Al-Hikma University in Baghdad. Griffin collects Celtic-language books and books on the Irish in America. Two years ago he donated 3,800 volumes on the Irish in America to the National Library in Ireland and was honored at a ceremony in Dublin...
...private video of bin Laden. They record these sort of things." Possibly it was intended for a small audience of true believers. Roland Jacquard, a leading French expert on terrorism, thinks the footage might have been intended for later editing into a propaganda tape; many such tapes are collector's items in the world of terrorist sympathizers...
...Empty consumerism becomes the running theme of the book, typified by the series of stories about Rusty Brown, a nasty collector of pop-culture detritus. He lives in filth but owns the complete Summer of '87 Happy Meal toy series. It's the only work by Ware to clearly condemn a character without offering any sort of forgiveness. This gives the Rusty Brown vignettes a certain savagery but with limited scope. The whole book, owing chiefly to its "gag" format, begins to feel like the same note being hit over and over. It lacks the rich development of the Jimmy...
...Brazilian city of Goiania, discovered the mysterious substance when he pried open a heavy lead casing that a scavenger had sold him. Leide rubbed the powder on her body so that she glowed and sparkled. Dust fell on the sandwich she was eating. Leide, her father and the scrap collector were in critical condition at a Rio de Janeiro hospital last week, not expected to survive...The ten Goiania victims in most serious condition, including Leide, were flown to a naval hospital in Rio de Janeiro. There they are being treated by a core team of eight specialists...Bone-marrow...