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...have been apparent to Angelina Jolie, seeing how she was his fifth wife, but as the couple made all too public, theirs was a deep and blinding love. Now, despite their protestations of undying love and unending sex, despite their having tattoos of each other's name and adjoining grave plots, Jolie has filed for divorce after two years of marriage. Since they adopted a baby in May from a Cambodian orphanage, she told US magazine, their priorities have shifted: he's been on the road with his band, and she's been tending her new son. She also told...
...This casts grave doubt on the procedure," says Nelda Wray, chief of general medicine at Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Houston and one of the researchers on the study. "It's putting people at risk for no benefit." It's also expensive: at $5,000 a pop, the operation was costing the U.S. more than $1 billion a year...
...friendly today as they were 200 years ago, their neighbors the Sioux, who were ornery in their encounters with Lewis and Clark, remain almost as testy. A South Dakota "scenic byway" designation drew initial opposition on the Standing Rock reservation. Traditionalists fear that tourists will loot sacred grave sites. And while the tribe is seeking grants for roadside panels and interpretive centers, the message will be mixed. "Our people have for too long put on beads and feathers and danced for the white man," says Ronald McNeil, a great-great-great grandson of Chief Sitting Bull and president...
...Standing Rock, the combative past survives in surnames. On radio station KLND--that's Lakota, Nakota, Dakota--the news is from Mike Kills Pretty Enemy, the music from Virgil Taken Alive. Last month tribe members gathered near the grave site of Sitting Bull, General George Custer's conqueror, to pray at the graves of long-ago chiefs--Thunderhawk, Rain-in-the-Face, Running Antelope. A package event for tourists? Hardly. The Indians got there on horseback and camped in the cold. In fact, they were not dressed for camcorders. They wore jeans, permanent press and wrap-around shades. When they...
...September 11: An Oral History" by Dean E. Murphy. Kirkus is moved to tears, giving the book a starred review. "Soul-stirring firsthand accounts - terrifying transports - of living through the disasters of September 11, as told to NYT reporter Murphy. Murphy was one of the reporters who covered that grave day and its aftermath, and for this collection he took on the unenviable task of asking those who survived by the skin of their teeth to relive the catastrophe, plus a handful of people, who by the grace of fortune, who were slow at making their morning coffee or decided...