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...proof of the untapped potential of the human mind, a blind German psychic says that he can read people's futures by feeling their naked buttocks. Ulf Buck, 39, from Meldorf, near Hamburg, said backsides have lines on them that can be read just like the lines on the palm of a hand...
...case involved Bumi Resources, a small energy business run by the Bakrie clan, which has interests ranging from real estate to palm oil to telecommunications. Lately, the Bakries have experienced difficulty raising capital due to the underperformance of the conglomerate as a whole. When Bumi Resources needed $150 million to buy Indonesia's second largest private coal company, it received it from the state-run workers pension fund?Jamsostek?and the country's largest bank, Bank Mandiri. A businessman intimate with the deal says Taufik supported Bumi's funding requests. Not so, says a spokesperson for the Bakrie Group...
TALKING BLUES The Bluetooth wireless data standard is being incorporated into more and more gadgets, from laptops and printers to cell phones and Palm Pilots. What does it let you do? A cool example: Sony Ericsson Bluetooth Headset HBH-30 ($150) is a lightweight earpiece-microphone that lets you speak unobtrusively through a Bluetooth-enabled cell phone sitting in a backpack, a briefcase or even another room as far as 30 ft. away...
...Palm-lined Manting Lu Road, near the Mekong in the heart of Jinghong, is a magnet for the hungry. Other standouts among its dozens of eateries are the Mei Mei and Forest cafes, backpackers' havens both. But for authentic eats, head for Chai's place. He gets all the superlatives...
...BEST SAVE Showing why he's rated as the world's best shot-stopper, German Oliver Kahn flung himself to the right to palm away an attempt by Korea's Lee Chun Soo in their tense semifinal match. Honorable Mention: Spaniard Iker Casillas's intercepts of the efforts by Ireland's David Connolly and Kevin Kilbane in the penalty shoot...