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...that a pristine Third World paradise turns out to be the stamping ground of elements whose agenda definitely doesn't include showing visitors a good time. Some 10 tourists from various countries are among the 21 hostages who were forced onto two boats on the remote island of Sipadan overnight Sunday by gunmen suspected of being members of a Philippines-based Islamic separatist movement. A spokesman for the Abu Ayyaf organization, a dwindling radical Islamic group with links to superterrorist Osama bin Laden, on Tuesday first claimed responsibility for the attack, and later (sort of) withdrew the statement, saying...
...crate or kennel anywhere. At night pampered pooches stay in a three-bedroom Bed and Biscuit Inn, complete with windows, kitchen and a family room with TV. There are five beds in each room, and, for an extra charge, a "Bed Buddy" from the staff will stay overnight with dogs accustomed to sleeping with humans. Basic boarding is $45 a day; with behavior and obedience classes, the weekly fee is $500. (Telephone...
Some fans drove overnight from Ottawa to hear her talk. Nicole Riess, Terra Kitzul and Lynn Kasinska, all architecture students at the Canadian Carleton University, wanted to see her in person before studying in London--Hadid's home city--next year...
After 33 years, her routine is the same. In the morning, she walks through millennia-dead invertebrates to reach her desk. She sits down, checks the phone messages, picks up faxes and reads the batches of e-mail messages that have arrived overnight...
...Microsoft lovefest? It could be, as Torricelli says, that the company has done a lot of good. But it may also be because Gates & Co., having shunned the political fray for years, have become overnight capital insiders. Microsoft has made $1.7 million in campaign contributions so far this election cycle. It's now the nation's sixth largest soft-money donor, and its lobbying staff boasts four former members of Congress...