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...didn't know how much Ray Charles and Johnny Cash had in common...
...Firouz does not believe the pullout will boost Israel's security. "There'll be Palestinian gang-wars over the evacuated territory. The Israelis will then return to Gaza." Nevertheless, Firouz - the last of Dugit's settlers to leave - found a ray of sunshine in his bleak day. That morning, when the Israeli soldiers handed him his evacuation notice, they also offered to assist with the move. "They helped me dig out all the trees from my garden and plant them in my new home. Their troops, their trucks and their tractors were all at my service, awaiting my orders...
...follow the events through the eyes of Lucius Vorenus (Kevin McKidd) and Titus Pullo (Ray Stevenson), two lower-class soldiers in Caesar's 13th Legion. This plebeian odd couple--Pullo's a rogue, Vorenus a by-the-book prig--offer grounding and some nicely turned comic relief, as when Pullo, jailed for disobeying an order, petitions Forculus, a Roman god of doors. "I will kill for you a fine white lamb," he promises. "Or failing that--if I couldn't get a good one at a decent price--then six pigeons." But the scripts resort to contrivance and coincidence...
Those Harvard undergraduates from New Orleans contacted by The Crimson this week were all out of town for research and vacations, or they had heeded Mayor C. Ray Nagin's plea to evacuate, sparing themselves the looting, filth, and chaos that would eventually overtake the devastated city in the wake of the storm. Floodwaters have breached city levees, and Nagin has estimated that 80 percent of the city is underwater...
...meaning "little one"--has been visiting the Stanford-NASA National Biocomputation Center in nearby Palo Alto. There, doctors and other scientists, working with imaging experts from Silicon Graphics, have been unwrapping her--not physically, which would cause enormous damage, but virtually. Using more than 60,000 high-resolution X-ray images from scans that produce 35 times as much information as the scans of King Tut released earlier this year, the team has put together a three-dimensional portrait of what lies within her casing...