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...Conner, who is prosecuting the case, declared Barton had intentionally disturbed the campfire circle to allow flames to travel out into the forest. He charged that there had been no letter; that John Barton denied ever writing letters to her; that her love-gone-bad story was the silly fiction of a cornered firebug. If found guilty on four arson charges, she will face 17 to 65 years in prison...
That is because among the best-selling fiction books of our times--right up there with Tom Clancy and Stephen King--is a series about the End Times, written by Tim F. LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, based on the Book of Revelation. That part of the Bible has always held its mysteries, but for millions of people the code was broken in 1995, when LaHaye and Jenkins published Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth's Last Days. People who haven't read the book and its sequels often haven't even heard of them, yet their success provides...
...magic of the movies makes people react in strange ways. But truth is stranger than fiction, and the real-life terrorist attacks on the United States and the latest intifada launched against Israel have made a lot of people—particularly American Jews—react in even stranger ways...
...works: With a "wide range" of fiction and nonfiction, Today's "twist," says a spokesperson, is to have a best-selling author choose a book from a lesser-known writer each month. The show announces its first selection this week...
...build a robot that could balance and walk naturally like a human. With ASIMO (short for Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility), mission accomplished. Now they are moving on to the next epochal challenge: creating a generation of humanoid machines that boast the kind of butlering skills of classic science fiction robots. "Imagine a machine that's as versatile as a human but that works 24 hours a day and does all the household chores," gushes Hirose. "You can't really attach a price tag to what it offers...