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Enter Stitch, a killing machine from the planet Turo. An unholy mix of E.T. and the Zuni fetish doll that scared the wits out of Karen Black in the never-to-be-forgotten TV movie Trilogy of Terror, Stitch was created by a mad scientist--or, as he prefers to be known, an "evil genius"--who gave the creature only one instinct: "to destroy everything it touches." Stitch escapes to Earth, a primitive planet that the Turans have allowed to exist as a "protected wildlife preserve to repopulate the mosquito." Stitch wanders into a dog pound and is adopted...
...Studies show that the height of death anxiety occurs in people's 40s and 50s," notes Karen Fingerman, a gerontologist at Penn State. "When you begin to calculate how many years you have left, it makes your parents' aging even more evident." In a study she conducted of 2,000 middle-aged daughters and healthy, aging mothers, she found that the daughters were more worried than necessary, often to the annoyance of their mothers. To help their parents, Fingerman urges, "kids need to confront their own emotions. Recognize that you're not just worried about your parent; you're worried...
...landing rites like those at Sukhothai. And the service is impeccable. The Swissair-trained staff, both on the ground and in the air, are efficient, helpful and always ready to share a smile. The attendants even remember passengers' names. "This is what flying should be like," says American tourist Karen Richards, between sips of Sukhothai Airport's signature welcome drink of iced lemongrass tea. "It's nice to feel human again, not part of a cattle roundup...
Just days after Bush approved Card's plan, speechwriter Michael Gerson was told to begin work on an address to be delivered the following week. Gerson went through 14 drafts, with editing provided by Card, presidential counselor Karen Hughes and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice. In an Oval Office meeting Tuesday, the advisers decided Bush should also confront the pre-9/11 intelligence failures and provide a progress report on the war against al-Qaeda. "We recognized the President had to address what's on the nation's mind," Hughes says. Cabinet members were not told of the plan...
...With reporting by Massimo Calabresi, Matthew Cooper, Andrew Goldstein, Karen Tumulty and Michael Weisskopf/Washington