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...singer, songwriter and, with partner Dean Torrence (right), performer of such '60s anthems as Surf City, The Little Old Lady (From Pasadena) and Dead Man's Curve; in Los Angeles. Berry collaborated on lyrics to several songs with close friend and Beach Boy Brian Wilson. Though a 1966 car crash left him temporarily paralyzed, he returned to performing with Torrence and in 1997 produced a solo album, Second Wave, which updated the duo's greatest hits...
...Army's spokesman, Major General Shaukat Sultan, acknowledged that no one had definitively spotted al-Zawahiri in the area since fighting flared on Tuesday. Lieut. General Safdar Hussain, the Frontier Corps commander, told journalists that a vehicle that may have been carrying al-Zawahiri managed to crash through militia roadblocks and escape. Yet what made the military believe they might still have a trophy in their gunsights was that al-Qaeda fighters normally vanish when confronted with a sizable force. This time they resisted fiercely, as if to protect someone special. Somewhere between 200 and 400 militants kept...
...million unfamous people a year. It used to happen to Julia Roberts several times a week. In an awful reverse synergy, the breakup was paired with a famous flop they both starred in, Gigli. Part of that stemmed from the magnitude of the flop. Gigli wasn't car-crash bad; that kind of movie gets rubberneckers into the theaters. It was the sort of event people avert their eyes from. It was man-urinating-in-public...
...their bodies to science, and while most people like to think of their mortal remains being gently dissected by respectful medical students, the fact is that cadavers might just as easily be sawed apart and scattered to pharmaceutical companies and biotech firms, or even used as flesh-and-blood crash-test dummies. The only hard rule, by federal law, is that under no circumstances may anyone profit from the transaction. The exception to that rule, however, is that the people handling, storing and processing the body may collect a reasonable fee for expenses. Such a loose standard begs...
...Turkey 's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will join the talks at a later stage. Tests Negative RWANDA The U.N. said initial tests on a flight recorder it had locked away in a filing cabinet for 10 years suggested it was not linked to the fatal 1994 plane crash that triggered Rwanda 's genocide. Embarassed officials located the "black box" after a report in the French newspaper Le Monde said it was sent to the U.N. shortly after the accident, but never examined. U.N. safety experts said they had not conducted tests at the time because the recorder's pristine...