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...Lanka's 26 years of civil war effectively ended on May 19 with a single image. Televisions across the globe broadcast a government-issued photo of slain Tamil Tiger head Velupillai Prabhakaran, lying on a muddy patch of ground with wide eyes and a fractured skull. His life's end terminated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam's decades-long fight for an independent homeland for Sri Lanka's Tamil minority - about 10% of the population - and a cycle of violence that Sri Lankans of all ethnicities and religions have been living with for decades...
...about Flight 447 and the history of aviation, which, as a 17-year-old technology fan, I found remarkable [June 15]. It opened my eyes to everything I take advantage of in this world filled with gadgets that can do anything and with practically immediate travel all over the globe. Maybe America should take a lesson from less technologically advanced nations, whose citizens, instead of being in sync with their computers and cell phones, are probably in sync with their families, their lives and their surroundings. All the things we "need" are just pulling us away from what is really...
...Robert Altman's Dr. T & the Women (2000) she played a mad housewife who walks naked through a mall fountain. She kept making films, and for The Apostle, as the frazzled wife of preacher Robert Duvall, she was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award instead of a Golden Globe. That citation indicates how the once incandescent star had accommodated herself to renown of diminished wattage. In the public eye, she was still Farrah Fawcett, but the operative word was not still...
...some measures, the solar system fairly sloshes with water. Mars, we now know, was once as wet as Earth and still harbors ice and perhaps liquid water. The moon is thought to have water locked in permafrost at its poles. Jupiter's moon Europa is probably home to a globe-girdling ocean beneath a thin rind of ice, and its Jovian sisters Callisto and Ganymede appear to be icy and wet too. Now, according to new findings by the Cassini spacecraft, one more name can be added to the list of water worlds: Enceladus, a small moon orbiting Saturn. What...
...unlike some corners of the globe, where tabloid infamy and legal troubles started to make inroads on his ticket sales, Japan proved to be a more forgiving audience for Jacko. In 1996, two years after he paid some $22 million to the family of a child he was accused of molesting, he performed eight sold out concerts at Tokyo Dome. In 2007, Jackson hosted about 300 of his loyal fans who each paid more than $3,500 for a buffet dinner and concert by Japanese Jackson impersonators - with the main attraction being a 30-second private meeting with Jackson. Jackson...