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Sometime after that, an old friend of mine called. He said, "There's this guy I know from Stanford. He was chief operating officer of something called PayPal, which was sold to eBay for $1.4 billion. Now he wants to get into moviemaking and wants to make Thank You for Smoking." I told him my absolute rule is to accept phone calls from people worth $1.4 billion who want to make my novels into movies...
...master bedroom, where rain is dripping through the ceiling and his son, Timur, now 2, is shouting for attention, the author reflects on his Moroccan adventure. "There's a wonderful balance of life here," he says. "The family is central, and the Moroccans love children - even on trains when mine are vomiting all over. I do encourage people, especially those with children, to get out of a place like London. There's more to life than packaged triangular sandwiches and council taxes." Shah has exchanged these dreary hazards for more substantial risks. Last July, while filming a travel documentary...
...sole survivor of the Sago Mine explosion on Jan. 2 that killed 12 other coal miners, Randal McCloy Jr., 26, is making "miraculous" strides, his doctors say. Still undergoing therapy at a rehab center in Morgantown, W.Va., McCloy--brain damaged from inhaling carbon monoxide for more than 40 hours--can walk with help and speaks well enough to ask for hamburgers, says family spokeswoman Aly Goodwin Gregg. McCloy--below, with daughter Isabel before the accident--made his first visit home last week and feasted on ribs. He should be well enough to go home for good in two weeks, says...
Last week, rallies to demand the closure of a gold and copper mine run by U.S.-based Freeport-McMoRan in Indonesia's Papua province turned violent, leaving three policemen and one air force officer dead. But the real surprise is that violence didn't break out sooner. Papuans have long seen the mine as a symbol of Jakarta's unequal share of the proceeds from the province's natural resources-and the roots of their resentment go even deeper. The remote province, whose inhabitants are ethnically distinct from the rest of the country, was forcibly taken over by Indonesia...
...Following the latest clashes, Indonesia's army chief and other senior officials traveled to Jayapura last Friday to talk with local leaders. There's much at stake: the Freeport facility, the world's largest gold mine, is the single largest contributor to Indonesia's coffers, paying roughly $1 billion in taxes last year...