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...told friends they saw Ministry of Interior vehicles take lawyer Saadoun al-Janabi from his office on Oct. 20 before he was discovered dead have themselves been killed. (One witness was shot just last week while taking his pregnant wife to a Baghdad hospital; TIME had been trying to reach him to have him relate what he saw.) "All fingers point to the Ministry of Interior," insists Saddam's personal lawyer Khalil al-Dulaimi, "its militias and Iranian intelligence." While al-Jaafari conceded that a corrupt Interior official could have been bribed to carry out the killings, he says...
...this year's Junior World Sumo Championship in Tokyo he finished second in heavyweight competition. With a small-town boy's big-city dream, he hopes to move from amateur to professional in the sacred rings of sumo in the sport's motherland. "The only place to reach the top is in Japan," he says. For the past two months, the 6-ft. 3-in., 276-lb. teen heavyweight has lived and trained with top amateur wrestlers affiliated with Nihon University in Tokyo. Two of his countrymen have enjoyed sumo success in Japan--as have many non-Japanese...
...Numbers 20 days Amount of time it took Apple Computer's online store to reach one million movie downloads for the new video-playing iPod 7 days Amount of time it took the website SuicideGirls.com, which offers free porn videos for iPods, to reach the same mark...
...highest barriers to an imported food staple in the world. South Korea maintains a strict quota that limits rice imports to just 4% of the country's total annual consumption. About 7% of Japanese consumption is accounted for by imported rice, but hardly any of it actually reaches supermarkets. Much of it is stuffed into government surplus warehouses or passed on to other countries as food aid. Foreign rice that does reach store shelves is made so expensive by tariffs that it poses no threat to domestic rice?which is also pricey, because the average Japanese farm is small...
...team’s perimeter players stepped up. Goffredo scored 15 points, and freshman guard Drew Housman contributed 13. Thrust into the starting role at point guard, Housman ran the offense with poise in his first collegiate game, and was able to penetrate the Vermont defense to reach the basket. He hit all eight of his free throw attempts, including four in the game’s final forty seconds that clinched the victory...