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...have been bubbling up from the mighty river on the late autumn night of the full moon at the end of the Buddhist Lent for as long as anyone can remember. "I've seen them since I was a little girl," says Pang Butamee, 70, who lives in a flood-prone hut on the river's edge. Nearby is Wat Paa Luang?an elegant, 450-year-old temple and one of the most popular spots to watch the fireballs. "I've seen them come up from the river, and also from canals and dams," she claims. "My mother and father...
...years after his first book, "Flood!," appeared and won an American Book Award, Drooker has released a kind of follow-up, "Blood Song" (Harcourt, Inc.; 300 pp.; $20). (A new edition of "Flood!" is being concurrently released by Dark Horse Comics.) Both "Flood!" and "Blood Song" continue Masereel's idea of a silent journey. But where "Flood!" took place exclusively in the dehumanizing world of a biblically punished New York, "Blood Song," moves from a pastoral to a modern metropolis, exploring the role of the individual in nature and society...
...Kurdish state in northern Iraq would instead mitigate desires for secession elsewhere. Given the long history of the Kurds’ inability to secure their own country, they would be willing to take whatever they could get. It is possible that Kurds from neighboring Iran, Turkey and Syria would flood into the newly created Kurdish state, rather than remain behind and demand for even more territorial secession...
...high-priced software titles. Investigators say it was one of the largest-ever software piracy busts in Europe. In one instance, police had to trick the pirate before he could delete any data from his hard disk. Police said they dumped pails of water under the door to flood his home. As the suspect ran out to see what was happening, they ran in. Three European countries, 12 suspects nabbed in two busts and tens of millions of dollars in pirated software - just another couple of weeks in the fight against the counterfeiters, who appear to be headed for another...
DIED. CHARLES GUGGENHEIM, 78, four-time Oscar-winning filmmaker and pioneering producer of the televised campaign commercial; in Washington. One of the nation's most prolific documentarians, Guggenheim took aim at social injustice with such works as The Johnstown Flood (1989) and Nine from Little Rock (1964) and saluted America in D-Day Remembered (1994) and Robert Kennedy Remembered (1968). He made his first campaign ads for Adlai Stevenson in 1956. But by the mid-'80s, he had quit political campaigning, saying it was "sick...