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...very rare happy ending to a months-long kidnapping saga: Elizabeth Smart returned home Wednesday, nine months after being abducted from her bedroom in the middle of the night. Edward Smart, her father, fought back tears of joy as he faced the media, issuing an impassioned plea for the U.S. House of Representatives to pass mandate a national "Amber Alert" system - the response program the Smarts credit with Elizabeth's safe return. Elizabeth's story will add fuel to the debate already raging over the program...
...Navy Seals' mission is simple, if next to impossible: rescue an Italian doctor from a Roman Catholic outpost in the besieged jungle of Nigeria. Just the doctor, none of the African patients. But even a tough guy like Lieut. A.K. Waters (Bruce Willis) can't resist a plea to take the wounded on a perilous trek--because the doctor is idealistic, the doctor is passionate, and the doctor is played by Monica Bellucci...
...watches from him. “My son is a despicable watch thief. He has broken me and Harvard should be ashamed of itself. Yale was the smart one, they turned him down.” He used the issue of the missing watches to explain his guilty plea of in the trial last January: “I don’t have $50,000 for the trial, and I am frankly exhausted. I pleaded guilty because I will not get jail time and the humiliation of Harvard-bred Jordan Ari Goldstein has so broken my heart...
...values and moral fiber come from? For Zimbabweans, there's one refrain - sometimes phrased differently, but always the same: "We need God." One of Mtukudzi's best-known songs outside Zimbabwe is Hear Me, Lord (1994), a high-speed ride to heaven on a guitar riff. The rousing plea for divine intervention was covered by American singer Bonnie Raitt. Perhaps better than any other song in his catalog, its lyrics sum up how Zimbabweans, many devoutly Christian like Tuku, feel today: "Help me Lord, I'm feeling low." "Zimbabwe needs God," says Fungisai Zvakanapano, a rising gospel star. "That...
...similar plea was voiced by Paul Gelsinger, whose 18-year-old son Jessie died during a gene-therapy trial at the University of Pennsylvania in September 1999. He said doctors painted ?a beautiful picture? of the benefits of the treatment without a full explanation of the risks. Why? Because too often the precise protocols used in clinical trials are hidden at the insistence of drug companies eager to protect their patent rights, explained Dean Hamer, chief of the National Cancer Institute?s gene structure and regulation section. Calling for more transparency in such experimental procedures, he said there...