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...firepower," says Ko-lin Chin, a Rutgers University professor who has written extensively about Taiwan's organized crime. "They won't hand over what they need for their survival." True enough. When police in southern Taiwan closed in on fugitive Chang Hsi-ming and three members of his kidnapping ring last week, they were attacked with assault rifles; the criminals held off as many as 1,000 officers for five hours. Four cops were wounded. Chang, who ultimately escaped, was last seen forcing a hostage into a getaway car, toting an M-16 and wearing a bulletproof vest...
...scariest part of a horror film often is waiting for it to start. You hear the premise (The Sixth Sense's "I see dead people") or see the trailer (a ghostly image on a TV screen for The Ring), and your palms sweat. Standing in line, you glance around to see if anyone else has that anguished look. By the time the film begins, you're a nervous wreck. What movie could match your nightmare of anticipation...
...almost 50. No Going Back SOUTH KOREA More than 450 North Koreans arrived on two flights, in what was thought to be the largest defection from the repressive state. Pyongyang accused Seoul of kidnapping its citizens, who travelled into the South via China and Vietnam. MEANWHILE IN THE U.K.... Ring Fenced Bounty hunters were barred from a nature reserve near Liverpool after newspaper reports claimed the fiancé of English soccer star Wayne Rooney had flung her $46,000 engagement ring into the bushes after a row over the player's alleged infidelity. The National Trust worried about the area...
...boxing ring in the middle of the stage and put Bob Marley in there with a couple of the guys from Pearl Jam and Paul Simon,” Corrigan said of the band’s influences. “Even though he’s a little guy I think he’d had have to get in the ring, and I think you’d have to throw in some of the classics too—some of the guys from Zeppelin. It’d probably turn into a wrestling match, tag team, with...
...like a fan-forced oven. But there's no wind 60 m below, where the flat bowl of the crater is still and stifling, almost steamy from the moisture trapped in the sinkholes and fractures beneath the sand. The inside face is steeper. The rocks slip and clatter, startling ring-tailed dragon lizards that jut their jaws at the intruder in seeming defiance. A balancing hand placed carelessly into the spinifex needles is rewarded with a dozen tiny dots of blood; peripheral vision catches the thick brown tail of a snake gliding face-high a meter away. This...