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...After childhood polio paralyzed her from the neck down, North Carolina native Martha Mason, 71, spent more than 60 years living in a 7-ft., 880-lb. iron lung that allowed her to breathe without tubes. Despite her condition, Mason graduated with honors from Wake Forest College (now a university) and published a book...
...Pura Vida. With its sweeping views of the Pacific, Hotel La Mariposa in Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica, is a popular destination (satisfied guests include TIME.com's deputy photo editor), with rooms starting at $150. You can go zip-lining through the rain-forest canopy, sport fishing or whitewater rafting. Not an über-outdoorsman? Then head down to the beach, order cocktails at the hotel's three pools or take a free shuttle to the crown jewel of the region: Manuel Antonio National Park, where the jungle is brimming with howler, white-faced and squirrel monkeys. Try a guided hike...
...Ukraine's Day of Remembrance for Victims of Political Repression, Yushchenko gave a speech at the Bykivnya forest, a mass grave near Kiev where the bodies of an estimated 100,000 victims of the NKVD, the forerunner of the KGB, were dumped between 1937 and 1941. In the speech, he equated the Soviet Union with Nazi Germany: "They are comparable in their hatred towards human beings. They are identical in the unprecedented scale of their mass killings...
...Claimed he's a student at the Forest Institute, a Missouri school for advanced psychology degrees. The school says he's not currently enrolled...
...could rake the Gabriel Byrne role as the sympathetic shrink on HBO's In Treatment) has an effect on everyone but Gainsbourg. The actress's performance will be called daring, because of the sexual intensity in her trysts with Dafoe and a long, nude masturbation scene in the forest. But she's an acute judge of the woman's character in the subtler moments as well. Her face, which resembles the woodcut of an ancient warrior, can express all the stark shades of desperation the script requires...