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...recall how he reacted. But his teammates remember him grabbing his head with both hands. "It can't be possible," he gasped. "It can't be possible." The 2,400-year-old mask is just the first in a vast haul of treasures - including a gold ring engraved with the figure of an athlete, and a near-complete set of armor as well as bronze arrowheads, spearheads, swords and breastplates - that together amount to one of the most sensational archeological finds of recent years. The Thracian artifacts were first brought together at Sofia's National Archaeological Museum, but this week...
...record label EMI. Chairman Eric Nicoli partly blamed a 13% dip in annual profits on the delay of the group's latest album. All the more irritating, then, that Crazy Frog's Axel F, mixing the theme tune from the Beverly Hills Cop movie with an infuriating mobile-phone ring tone - think two-stroke scooters voiced by an animated frog - outsold Coldplay's single fourfold last week, according to music retailer HMV. Exploiting the Crazy Frog's appeal (the ring tone is sold across Europe, the U.S. and Australia), the track looks set to top the British singles chart this...
...scenes will ring true to anyone who has wondered how much reality a celebrity reality show can actually reveal. It's hard to imagine Martha Stewart relinquishing control of her pruning shears, let alone her public image. It's a delicate act, though; these shows succeed by offering at least the illusion of access and authenticity. Fans want to feel the celebrities have earned redemption by abasing and laughing at themselves; we need to look down on them before we return them to their pedestals...
...your report, columnist and life coach Jane Glenn Haas advised midlife women to put themselves first. Haas writes that "it's O.K. to have a facial, travel by yourself or have a relationship without a wedding ring." Although it's very healthy to take good care of yourself, selfishness leads to unhappiness while sacrificing for loved ones brings lasting joy. Having an affair, while potentially exciting, can be emotionally destructive. Physical intimacy outside of marriage undermines self-esteem. Women need to make emotionally healthy choices...
...DIED. ZHANG CHUNQIAO, 88, the last surviving member of China's notorious Gang of Four, the influential ring of radical Maoists, including Mao's wife Jiang Qing, behind the excesses of Mao's 1966-76 Cultural Revolution; on April 21, in an undisclosed location. When a politically threatened Mao started the revolution to cleanse the nation of "bourgeois remnants," Zhang, his trusted propagandist and deputy, led the effort. The ensuing terror, including the assault and jailing of legions of perceived enemies, ended in October 1976, a month after Mao's death, when Zhang and his comrades were arrested...