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Take Anita Blake. Many have. She's a vampire hunter who fell for Richard, a werewolf, slept with wereleopards Micah and Nathaniel and then bedded Jean Claude, the master vampire of St. Louis, Mo. When vertical, she runs around like a paranormal Kay Scarpetta, keeping her fanged friends out of trouble. "Anita knew Richard was a monster, but he was no rapist," writes Laurell K. Hamilton, Blake's creator. Hamilton, currently writing the 15th novel in the series (the last four were New York Times best sellers), says the secret to her vampires' popularity is that "they're people first...
...lead appeared to be dwindling as the vote count wore on; in Port-au-Prince. An agronomist by training, Préval is beloved by the country's impoverished majority. He was President from 1996 to 2001 and replaces the interim government installed after the 2004 ouster of Jean-Bertrand Aristide...
Just how big could nukes become? Jean-Jacques Gautrot, who heads Areva's international division, does a quick calculation. Taking into account the world's growing energy needs and the fact that many existing plants will be coming to the end of their lives, he reckons that at least 800 new reactors will be built over the next 25 to 35 years. If nukes were to double their share of the world's electricity generation, to 30% of the total, the number of new nukes would be somewhere between 1,200 and 1,500. That may be wishful thinking...
...Haitian judicial landmark occurred during Preval's first presidency, with the unprecedented conviction of 15 members of the military and former paramilitaries for a 1994 massacre of more than 20 people. And his response to the crowds this week has been significantly more statesmanlike than that of his predecessor Jean Bertrand Aristide. In 1990, shortly after Aristide was elected but before he took office his supporters had blocked an attempted coup d'etat, but then went on a rampage, burning buildings and attacking anti-Aristide leaders. Aristide's response was not to tell his supporters to go home; instead...
...Haitian judicial landmark occurred during Preval's first presidency, with the unprecedented conviction of 15 members of the military and former paramilitaries for a 1994 massacre of more than 20 people. And his response to the crowds this week has been significantly more statesmanlike than that of his predecessor Jean Bertrand Aristide. In 1990, shortly after Aristide was elected but before he took office his supporters had blocked an attempted coup d'etat, but then went on a rampage, burning buildings and attacking anti-Aristide leaders. Aristide's response was not to tell his supporters to go home; instead...