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...Captain Janeway spent most of her trip fretting over human (and other species') rights at the expense of her crew. Ratings plummeted, and by 2001, probably the most financially successful Trek product made since Roddenberry's death turned out to be a throwback action film, Star Trek: First Contact (1996). It cleared a profit of $122 million and provided further evidence that Trek needed another makeover. Nemesis and Enterprise are the result, and the lads will love them. Star Trek, it seems, will now hang its future on a reliable formula: explosions and breasts. Take Nemesis. It's basically...
...China's leaders can only hope that the North heeds their wishes. During the October summit in Crawford, Texas, Jiang told President Bush he did not have frequent contact with Kim. Bush said he had never met North Korea's "Dear Leader," and asked if, in Jiang's more informed opinion, Kim is a "peaceful man." Jiang, according to an American official, leaned forward and broke into English to reply, "Honestly, I don't know...
...children in Hasan's compound in the village of Sumedang aren't talking, at least not when Hasan is around. Most avoid eye contact with visitors and disappear around corners in the orphanage, which consists of a small chicken run, four huts fashioned out of wood and bamboo where the children and adults sleep, an open air concrete toilet and a musholla, or prayer room. A skinny 9-year-old gathers his courage to speak: "I was named Joni by my parents, but that was when I was still an infidel. I am Zulhakim now that I'm a Muslim...
...happy to say something” and that he asked the Kuumba members to e-mail him what they would like him to say during the next class. He added the Kuumba members agreed, but that he had not received any correspondence from the group and could not contact them because he did not know who they were...
...smallpox: variola major, which is the most severe and common form, manifests as a widespread, distinctive rash and high fever; and variola minor, which is far less common and also less dangerous. Variola major generally kills about 30 percent of its victims. The virus can be spread by bodily contact or by coughing...