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...Boise, Idaho, family was denied a mortgage two weeks ago after a credit check turned up an unpaid library fine. Some libraries are pressing criminal charges. A paralegal in Massachusetts was arraigned last month on four counts of failing to return library materials, a misdemeanor. Says Peter Anderegg, the librarian who filed the complaint: "We give you books, and you bring them back in two weeks or else. That's the deal." --By Maggie Sieger
Returning from vacation is never easy, but Peter Mandelson may have found it worse than most. The European Union's Trade Commissioner came back to work last week to discover 47 million Chinese-made sweaters, 17 million pairs of men's trousers, 6 million T shirts and more than 8 million bras locked up in customs warehouses around Europe?and retailers across the Continent calling for his head. The enormous pile of impounded clothing was the result of a June deal that Mandelson struck with Beijing that limited some Chinese textile exports to the E.U. At the time, Europe...
...changing the way films are made and what people can do in telling a story, but it's still the basics: movies made by directors starring actors with the right screenplay will be exactly what we'll be seeing succeed for the next decade. That said, when people see Peter Jackson's remake of King Kong this year, no one will feel jaded. He's delivered a real story with heart...
...clink, Scofield sets in motion a complex Swiss watch of an escape plan. He tracks down brother Lincoln (Dominic Purcell), who is being held in isolation. He feigns diabetes to get access, for unknown reasons, to the medical facilities. He enlists the help of a Mafia boss (Peter Stormare, playing against Nordic type) by finding--don't ask how--the witness protection-sheltered stoolie who fingered him. He cozies up to a prisoner who may or may not be famed hijacker D.B. Cooper (Muse Watson). And he helps build an anniversary gift for the wife of the warden (Stacy Keach...
...wormwood, a traditional Chinese herb?can reduce the chances of death from severe malaria by 35% compared to quinine. The results were so striking that the study is likely to alter the World Health Organization's (WHO) recommendations for treatment of severe malaria. "This is quite significant," says Dr. Peter Olumese, a malaria-drug-policy expert at the WHO. "This drug is a good product...