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Bihar is one of the sorriest places on earth. The eastern Indian state is the poorest and most illiterate in the subcontinent. Extortion and gang wars are rife, thousands of people die in floods every few years, and NASA recently discovered a cloud of smog over Bihar five times as dense as that over Los Angeles. It's not a place where you'll find many tourists, and certainly not somewhere you'd expect a center of scholarly excellence. So the existence of the Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library (kblibrary.nic.in), a small pink building in downtown Patna, the state capital...
Before 9/11, the agency required plants to be able to thwart an attack by little more than an armed gang--three outsiders equipped with handheld automatic weapons and aided by a confederate working inside the plant. After 9/11, when al-Qaeda showed the ability to produce 19 operatives for a suicide mission on a single day, some security specialists anticipated a significant hike in the DBT. But the number of attackers in the revised DBT is less than double the old figure and a fraction of the size of the 9/11 group. (The NRC regards the exact number...
...with the sociopolitical truths of black American life; of complications from a blood infection; in Chicago. Brown, an actor on TV shows like Brewster Place and Roc, recorded such albums as 1960's Sin & Soul ... and Then Some and produced the stage revue Opportunity, Please Knock, employing high-profile gang members in the cast. "I wanted to present a picture of black culture," he said, "to anyone who could hear...
...ages and beloved by an entire postwar generation of kids, are being reprinted as a quarterly series of black-and-white collections (Vol. 4 arrives this month). The adventures of Lulu, Tubby, Alvin and the "fellers" seem as fresh and funny as they were 50 years ago. The gang gets big laughs from such absurd contrivances as Lulu's swapping her father's beloved mounted fish for a Civil War cannonball as a surprise gift. Stanley and Tripp keep Lulu as entertaining and revisitable as I Love Lucy...
...movie Angel Baby and TV series Halifax f.p., playing a schizophrenic and a murder suspect with multiple personality disorder, respectively. If anyone had the monopoly over damaged souls and troubled teens it was McKenzie. The elfin actress first broke hearts as the little girl lost in a gang of neo-Nazi skinheads in Romper Stomper (1992), and proved the perfect Ophelia in Neil Armfield's acclaimed 1994 production of Hamlet. But when that play toured, her role was taken over by Cate Blanchett. And for the latter part of the '90s, McKenzie's star seemed eclipsed by a succession...