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PEOPLE: A talentless Miss America contest; why Clinton's My Life is wacky in translation; a real-life fatal attraction...
...that was missing was a boiled bunny when CATHERINE ZETA-JONES testified in a Los Angeles courtroom last week in an apparent real-life case of fatal attraction. At a preliminary hearing, the Chicago star read aloud from letters sent by her alleged stalker, Dawnette Knight. One note promised "to slice her up like meat on a bone and feed her to the dogs." Another included a mock obituary for the Welsh actress, who is married to her Traffic castmate Michael Douglas. The letters left the actress "hysterical," her husband testified. Knight, says her lawyer, sent them because she harbored...
...made is that the high proportion of motorcycles on Thailand's roads (of the country's 26 million registered vehicles, 12 million are two-wheelers; according to Nikorn, there are another 6 million unregistered motorcycles) is linked to a higher death rate. As many as 80% of all fatal accidents in Thailand involve motorcycles, which are light, tricky to control, and leave riders exposed to injury even in the slightest brushes with heavier cars and trucks. They are also wildly popular in many parts of Asia because almost anyone can afford one. "We really need motorcycle-only lanes...
DIED. RODGER WARD, 83, one of auto racing's most prominent figures during the glory days of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway; in Anaheim, Calif. Before winning the Indy 500 in 1959 and 1962, Ward almost quit racing because of his involvement in two fatal crashes--one that killed his former crew chief Clay Smith, and another that claimed the life of his friend and two-time Indy 500 champion Bill Vukovich...
...Zarqawi, the Jordanian acolyte of Osama bin Laden. The new government is blunt in its approach. "Be ruthless. Either they kill you or you kill them," National Security Adviser Muwaffak al-Rubaie tells TIME. "With them, there can be no mercy." Al-Rubaie thinks al-Zarqawi made a "fatal mistake" with the wave of bombings two weeks ago that killed more than 100 Iraqis in a single day: "That alienated everyone." It could help al-Shahwani quickly recruit informants and obtain the kind of intelligence that can flush out the jihad groups infesting western Iraq. "We might be starting from...