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...many injuries and 27 surgeries, leaving him with only flashes of his former brilliance. And now, at the twilight of his career, 35-year-old Gascoigne is searching for one last chance at redemption. Earlier last year there was talk of a deal in Dubai or America or Malta. Maybe even one last shot in England...
...forced labor. "If they want to play the international game," says Neville Gabriel of Jubilee South Africa, which backs the latest claim, "then they must play by international rules." COPYRIGHT The Walls Have Ears A recent U.S. law extended Mickey Mouse's copyright for 20 years, but residents of Malta, Austria, now say they've housed him in their church for centuries. Restoration work uncovered a 700-year-old fresco that tourism officials hope will make the town a Mickey Mecca - and perhaps threaten Disney's copyright. Stanford professor Lawrence Lessig notes that a long-standing legal hypothetical asks: "What...
...seen recent intelligence reports suggesting that "networks previously thought to be struggling are at the very peripheries of much larger, better organized and fully operative structures." There have been key arrests - six Tunisians suspected of plotting a bomb attack in northern Europe were picked up in Italy, France and Malta last month; in Eindhoven last week a Dutch citizen of Moroccan origin was apprehended for allegedly plotting a suicide strike - but nothing crippling to the terrorist enterprise as a whole. The evidence was compel- ling enough for the former director of the German intelligence service, Hans-Georg Wieck, to conclude...
...ranking in list of countries with highest percentage of overweight 10-year-olds, behind Malta and Italy...
...Gibraltarians, though, there's little to sort out. They're British. A typical family living on this outcrop of pine-dotted rock at the mouth of the Mediterranean may have roots in Ireland, Italy, Malta, Morocco and, yes, Spain. But a stroll down Main Street shows that the biggest cultural influence has been Britain. Letters go into mailboxes - no, postboxes - marked with the Queen's monogram. Conversations, though in the vernacular Spanglish, are peppered with Briticisms like "bloke" and a car's "boot." And tea-time at the Rock Hotel means fresh scones and cucumber sandwiches with the crusts...