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...intelligence chiefs of Russia and Germany agreed to cooperate in an effort to stop nuclear smuggling. According to a joint statement released in Germany, the two countries "emphasized the urgent necessity of putting a stop to the illegal trade in radioactive and nuclear material, regardless of its origin." The sketchy agreement is the fruit of a three-day visit to Moscow by German envoy Bernd Schmidbauer, whom an alarmed Chancellor Helmut Kohl sent over after Munich police confiscated 350 grams of plutonium traced to Russia...
...Ninety per cent of the people of Bangladeshi origin living in New York can't speak the English of the average American," observes travel agent Mohammed Hossain (no relation to Mukit). "Letterman seems to be enjoying their failure." And yes, standing by the Mississippi last week, the pair triggered the brittle Letterman chuckle by staring blankly at a reference to the Stanley Cup and discovering new consonants in words like Illinois...
...successfully fought for his own execution; Norman Mailer wrote about Gary's final months of life in his 1979 fact-based novel The Executioner's Song, which won the Pulitzer Prize. Shot in the Heart is a more personal story, as Mikal Gilmore searches for insight into the origin of evil by examining his family -- his mother's shattered Mormon faith, his father's secret criminal past. Both Gilmore parents, haunted by their past, took their frustrations out on their children, dooming them to lives of anger and abuse as well. Mikal quotes Gary as saying, "My father...
...only are we understanding matter and energy at a very microscopic level, but we're also under standing the origin of the universe," he said. "That's one of the really beautiful unifications that's happening between particle physics and astrophysics...
When the committee released the final draft of the code on April 28, it no longer referred to verbal harassment on the basis of age, color disability national origin, race or religion--only on the basis of gender or sexual orientation...