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...museum in Turin, Italy, recounts the trial of a thief who was caught in the Valley of the Kings. He confessed under torture that he had broken into Ramesses II's tomb and then returned the next night to rob the tomb of Ramesses' children, which lay across the path. The absence of artifacts in the rubble above the floor suggests that the tomb remained undisturbed-except by floodwaters-for more than 2,000 years...
...identified. Belgium's Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF) rushed in loads of gloves, gowns, masks and other essential equipment to restore hygiene to filthy clinics. But when the strike forces, aided by local medical students, fanned out through the countryside around Kikwit, trying to follow the path of the fever, it became clear that the danger was far from past...
...offered to send emergency teams and financial aid to help in the effort. By late Monday, rescuers had located 938 survivors, evacuating the most seriously injured to hospitals hundreds of miles away in Khabarovsk and Okha on the mainland. At the same time, an ice-breaker was battering a path through the three-foot-thick mantle of ice surrounding the island so that a Russian hospital ship could reach the area. Rescuers fear they are running out of time: complicating the sheer magnitude of the damage and severity of the injuries of those still alive under the rubble...
Despite its failings, the movie slides elegantly along its predetermined path (the plot is predictable whether or not you're read the book) until the end, where the enthusiasm of its creators overflows into a million directions at once, giving us about 10 endings for the price...
Remarkably, only a few weeks ago, congressional Republican leaders were still cautiously talking about putting America on a "glide path" to a balanced budget and making a "down payment" toward that goal. But the defeat of their balanced-budget amendment, along with some goading by Democrats, steeled them to pursue the battle by other means. "The change in the temperament of the people seems to make it easier than reducing the deficit in the past has ever been. It's a lot different," says an elated Pete Domenici, the Senate Budget Committee chairman. "I find it much easier to lead...