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...hope still glimmered at the power plant. Rescuers say the odds of finding survivors are highest during the first "golden 72 hours" after an earthquake. After that, the chances for those still pinned under rubble begin to decline precipitously, because of lack of food and water. Yet shortly after midnight, rescuers pulled the man trapped in the collapsed building, the state-run Xinhua News Service reported. He was identified as Ma Yuanjiang, an executive with the power company. It had been 178 hours - almost seven and a half days - since the quake decimated Yingxiu...
...possible sightings of Clint and Brangelina!). But the 2,000 critics are here on a monastic mission. Renouncing the beaches and the usually gorgeous weather of this Riviera resort, we sit in large and small screening rooms in Cannes' Grand Palais from eight in the morning to well past midnight, taking pause only to rush to the press room or back to our hotels to file reports on the films we've seen. It's a hectic time but, truth to tell, every bit as exhilarating as it is exhausting...
Every summer, this settlement 46 miles (75 km) north of the Arctic Circle experiences the never-setting midnight sun. But any time of year Sisimiut holds plenty of small wonders. Scattered across rocky inlets, the town's wooden houses are painted in primary hues - a tradition that started as a practical measure to make the hospital and police station easy to identify. Up on the craggy hills, you can enjoy stunning views of the town and find ancient Inuit burial mounds overlooking the sea, marked by piles of rocks...
Grand Theft Auto IV has been in my possession since midnight Monday in a Los Angeles mini-mall. Because the game is rated M for Mature, there were a few eager teens milling around in the parking lot, trying to bribe cool adults to get them a copy. What's worse? Buying teens cheap vodka or immersive sociopathic sandbox crime simulators...
...right. The North End is not an authentic Italian town. It is as much home to Old North Church–a symbol of Boston—and Paul Revere—who rung the bells of the church for five pennies every Sunday long before his midnight ride—as it is a transplanted European city. So to consider it an Italian community would not only be misrepresenting the Italians across the pond; it would be selling short Boston’s Italian Americans. As we waved goodbye and I followed his wife for a brief tour...