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...Nearly all freight is carried in by bicycle. Locals hunt with homemade shotguns and crossbows seemingly modeled on 16th century Portuguese design. "This area is the last part of Africa where there are still wild animals," says Pontier, who grew up in the region. "It's not a game park. It's not a reserve. The animals are really wild...
OVERTURNED. The murder convictions of ANDREA YATES, 40, Texas mother who in 2001 drowned her five children in the family bathtub; by a Texas appeals court, because of false testimony from a witness for the prosecution; in Houston. In testifying that Yates knew right from wrong, psychiatrist Park Dietz referred to a Law & Order episode concerning a depressed woman who drowns her kids, which prosecutors suggested influenced Yates' actions. The court subsequently learned that no such episode exists. Although Yates' lawyer said he would not seek her immediate release from prison, her mother is pushing for hospitalization instead...
...story of Guatemalan refugees, immigration, homosexuality, and human kindness made its way to Harvard Square park benches, Starbucks counters, and ATMs this Christmas thanks to a cutting-edge marketing scheme developed by its author: freebies. Grace, a novel set in Harvard Square in 1992, evokes memories of “charming coffee houses before the expansion of big business in Harvard Square” according to the author, Barbara Hindley, who placed copies of her novel throughout Harvard Square as gifts to perfect strangers...
...years ago, Bill Murray attended a concert in New York City's Central Park. When the show ended, Murray walked east toward his car. By the time he reached the parking garage, 50 people were dodging traffic to keep up with him. "What's amazing was that Bill was interacting with all of them," says Wes Anderson, Murray's director on three movies, including his latest, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. "He was leading this hilarious roving mass conversation. It was like street theater. I can't think of anybody else who would a) inspire people to walk with...
...With his innovative SpaceShipOne, Burt Rutan hit the ball not just out of the park but right out of the atmosphere. I was disappointed, however, that many of the creations you chose were impractical, half-baked ideas. Consider the Snow Boat, which is supposed to solve the problem of a snowmobile falling through broken ice by welding an aluminum boat around it. That's like making a safer motorcycle by carrying it in a U-Haul trailer. Admittedly, coolness is hard to define, but I never thought ridiculousness was an essential part of the concept. Dexter Ford Manhattan Beach, California...