Word: queens
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...long and 110 ft. wide, the locks were built to handle the largest ships then planned. Even though many modern ships are too big (the Titanic would have fit; today's Queen Mary 2 doesn't), the canal handled more than 14,000 transits in 2005, accounting for about 5% of world trade. How a lock works...
DIED. Patsy Ramsey, 49, mother of 6-year-old Colorado beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey, whose still unsolved 1996 murder fueled massive media interest and myriad theories about the slaying, leading Patsy and her husband John to sue authors and news outlets that suggested they were the killers; of ovarian cancer; in Roswell...
...first reel, he writes a letter home: "Oh, mom I?m a bit confused. Everyone looks like a yakuza." That?s not quite fair to the rain-gutter coalition on view at CHS. There?s gorilla sitting at one classroom desk, and a prancing tough guy called the Queen (Freddie Mercury with Toshiro Mifune?s menace), and a cigarette-puffing robot in a pink shirt. The entire group sends up fumes like an Iraqi oil factory, and when Kamiyama presses them to renounce smoking, they protest: "Our lips would be lonely? And our fingers too." You?ll find no girls...
...wise enough to be the fool. There are exceptions, like the beneficent and vengeful god Oprah, but America tends to like its TV hosts risible: fussy Alex Trebek, funny-haired Donald Trump, screwball Kelly Ripa. "Being fallible works to my advantage," says Ricki Lake, who has gone from the queen of train-wreck talk to the cheerfully awkward M.C. of CBS's Gameshow Marathon...
...million Total raised by an auction of the effects of the late Princess Margaret, the younger sister of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, at Christie's, London. The sale of over 800 items had been predicted to make only $5.5 million $21,000 Price paid for the original artwork from a 1949 TIME cover of Princess Margaret. The portrait had been valued...