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...ZEALAND Slow of Force New Zealand has decided to adopt an unusual approach to its defense forces. Prime Minister Helen Clark announced that, though spending on the military would rise by $820 million over the next 10 years, the air force will be stripped of its fighter jets and the navy will lose half its large warships. "New Zealand is a small country," Clark said, "and it cannot afford to do a wide range of capabilities well." The move has provoked protests from opposition groups and anxieties among the country's allies...
...Through a website and a voice-mail system, parents can get up-to-date information about their child's grades, homework, attendance and even the details of that day's lessons. Yvonne Gray says, "ParentLink fosters communication" with her daughter. "It gives me something specific to ask her about." Helen Marmoll, after checking ParentLink, stunned her son by asking why he hadn't made it back to class on time after a doctor's appointment...
Ellroy lives a quiet life in Kansas City, Kans., with his wife Helen Knode, "whom I love more than my life and would happily die for," and his bullterrier Dudley, which chases female joggers through his neighborhood. After years in a drug and alcohol haze, he takes care of his health, eating well and working out regularly. At 53, he says, he is still "10 years from the top of my game." He travels tirelessly around the world to promote his books as they come out, then returns to his six-bedroom house in Kansas City--to think...
...Millions of his countrymen and -women do. And fad or art form, the text message is entering the realm of popular fiction. Helen Fielding, author of the best-selling Bridget Jones's Diary, has launched an "Ask Bridget" service with Finnish wireless entertainment publisher RIOT-E. For 34 cent, subscribers can dial up a daily text message from Fielding - writing in characteristic Bridget Jones mode - on the quest for thinner thighs and inner poise. "Mobile phones are a perfect way to add another dimension to book characters," says Jan Wellman, RIOT-E's chief executive...
...over 30 films, has kept information on his latest film, in this case The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, under wraps. The comedy takes place in New York in the 1940s, and has Woody Allen playing the lead, C.W. Briggs, an insurance investigator. Conflict arises when Academy Award winner Helen Hunt, playing an efficiency expert, is hired to evaluate and improve Briggs' place of business. However, since the film is categorized as a romantic comedy, it may be assumed that their relationship does not remain solely antagonistic. Dan Aykroyd stars as Briggs' boss, who, following the theft of one fine...