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...February 2003, three American contractors crash-landed in the Colombian jungle and were captured by FARC, the country's long-lasting Marxist rebel group. For the next five years, the three were held hostage--many of their captors little more than brainwashed youths with guns--facing snakes, insects, disease and constant movement from one dank jungle camp to the next. But the character earning the most scorn in their lengthy account turns out to be a fellow captive. French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt, whose rescue in the same mission that freed the authors made world headlines, comes...
Driving Miss Crazy: MORGAN FREEMAN sued by passenger over auto crash...
...pictures of the stock market crash...
...illuminating. The day of the meltdown of the Chernobyl reactor in 1986, there was initially a sharp spike in Soviet message traffic. The intelligence community knew something bad had just happened. But what? The immediate speculation was a change of Soviet leadership or even a plane crash. It wasn't until more reporting emerged, including that by the media, that it was understood it was a nuclear accident...
...this year, down from $49 a share in 2008. That's a drop of 18%. Not great. But take out financial stocks, and the picture gets worse. Excluding banks, insurers and the like, Goldman is predicting an earnings plunge of 25% in '09. (See pictures of the stock-market crash...