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...Aside from their ice cream expeditions, the FARC guerrillas maintain a discreet profile in San Vicente. Everyone is so scared of them, anyway, that they don't need to bully the townsfolk. Locals whisper that when the guerrillas ask for anything - a cow, free gasoline, a ranch - it's not advisable to refuse. "Up until yesterday, these commanders had spent their lives in the jungle, walking around in mud," says one shopkeeper. "Now they have the best houses, the prettiest girls...
...Explorer quickly became the most popular SUV of all time - and a major cash cow for both Ford and Firestone - a number of lawsuits concerning the Firestone tires were filed, the first in 1992. But Ford and Firestone, like most companies in today's superlitigious society, tend to assume that the bulk of legal actions are frivolous. "We're going to be second-guessed about this forever. But based on the number of vehicles in service, the number of incidents was statistically insignificant," says Ken Zino, one of Nasser's senior advisers. "We get sued every day. A lawsuit...
...York is supposed to be the center of the art universe," says DAVID LYNCH. "Ha!" Forgive Lynch his New York City animosity. In June the director was asked by the people behind the kid-friendly Cow Parade NYC 2000 to turn a fiber-glass heifer into art for the city's streets. Most of the 1,200 other art cows are as amiable as their living counterparts, but, as you can see below, Lynch did something a little different. The cow was displayed for a week in San Francisco without incident but never made it out of packaging...
REASON "Mad cow" disease in beef and a report that GM potatoes caused immune-system damage in rats have alarmed most Brits. Markets ban GM foods, and experiments are tightly controlled...
...Iranian Kurdistan. Why is he there? That is one unsolved mystery in this minimalist spellbinder. But suspense isn't Kiarostami's aim. He is after ordinary rapture, the gentle collision of distant cultures: a schoolboy, Farzad, who befriends the intruder; a girl reciting poetry as she milks a cow in a dark cellar. "Prefer the present!" cries an old man, and this drama, from one of the world's premier film fabulists, makes each moment and movement count. The rhythm of rural life has rarely seemed so lucid and luminous...