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...Japan in July and has lined up sold-out gigs in Hong Kong and Tokyo. But the engine of Korean pop-culture dominance in Asia is the soap opera, which is why Rain is forecast for TV this fall. The decidedly boyish singer will play a macho K-1 fighter who falls for his brother's lover in a series tentatively titled A Love to Kill. Though the show is set to air first in Korea this October, the astounding popularity of Korean TV dramas around the region means that the pop star could soon become a familiar face throughout...
...airport, converted into a field hospital where patients were being pushed around on luggage carts and triaged for evacuation. At Lakefront Airport on the edge of the city, fights broke out for seats on the departing choppers. "The gang bangers," said Jimmy Dennis, 34, a Lakefront Airport fire fighter who had been up for two nights trying to keep order, "couldn't understand that we had to get the sick people out first." Frightened, the small band of fire fighters called in 10 New Orleans police with semiautomatic weapons to settle the crowd...
Eerie accounts from Greek fighter pilots of a co-pilot slumped over the Helios 737's controls before that crash have experts asking if the oxygen tanks provided for decompression emergencies were not filled--the kind of maintenance mistake that stricter oversight might help prevent. The solution, says aviation analyst John Nance, is "total standardization now--and more intolerance of those countries that fail to comply with it." --By Tim Padgett and Sally B. Donnelly
...jury. In Washington, Cunningham lived on a yacht, rent-free, owned by the contractor, Mitchell Wade. He sold his San Diego-area home at a price that was inflated by about $700,000 to the same contractor, using the proceeds to buy a bigger place. The Republican Vietnam War fighter pilot has acknowledged using his slot on the Appropriations Committee to push contracts for Wade's companies and said last month he would not run for a ninth term...
...protest in Crawford through the lens of personal pain, not presidential politics. "It doesn't matter what the government changes," she says. "They can bring everybody home today, but they can't bring her son back." Urbina's Long Island community came together to mourn Wilfredo, a volunteer fire fighter, but his mother says that plaques and parades do nothing to ease the heartbreak of losing a son. "They hand me these awards, but my arms are empty," she says, "because I don't have my boy." She doesn't know if the Bush Administration was right to start...