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Some 10 hours later and 200 miles south of Chicago, at least 300 journalists tried to stay warm under a crescent moon as they waited outside the Indiana Youth Center in Plainfield. They came from as far away as Brazil and Germany to watch prisoner No. 922335 emerge after three years of incarceration for rape. The prisoner was Mike Tyson, once the No. 1 heavyweight in the world and a fighter some thought could be the best there ever was. Although everyone there knew he would get out at around 6 a.m., they were eager for a sign that Tyson...
What is evident is that both men live luxuriously by Kurdish standards, with foreign cars and cushy mountain retreats. Most Kurds, while not starving, barely eke out a living with the help of relief supplies from the U.N. and Turkish Red Crescent. This year's harvest has been good, but prices have skyrocketed because of the factional fighting. Children maimed by terrorist bombs, which each party accuses the other of planting, lie with gangrenous limbs in hospitals where there is little medicine or equipment to treat them...
International Red Cross and Red Crescent director Eigil Petersen, who witnessed the suicide, said the man had threatened to blow up the office before dumping gasoline on the floor and himself...
...Over the next nine months, the Amtrak rail-passenger network will phase in route and service reductions that will cut nationwide train service 21%. On Feb. 1 the daily Palmetto, which ran between New York City and Tampa via Washington and Charleston, was discontinued. The daily Crescent, operating between New York City and New Orleans via Washington and Atlanta, has reduced the Atlanta-New Orleans leg to three days a week. The Empire Builder will continue its daily schedule between Chicago and St. Paul-Minneapolis, but the connecting service to Seattle and Portland is now available only four times...
Duplicates of animals on Moche pottery and murals, anthropomorphized spiders, crabs and owls appeared on tomb artifacts. They embody real people whose ceremonial roles have those creatures' characteristics. In Moche drawings, for instance, a strikingly arachnoid figure, dubbed the Decapitator by archaeologists, clasps a crescent-bladed knife in one hand and a severed head in the other. The supreme example of Moche craftsmanship was found atop the royal corpse in Tomb 3, oldest of the chambers: on each of 10 gold beads is a spider with a human face etched on its back. "The Moche communicated very effectively through their...