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...Sometimes humorous, sometimes serious and occasionally showing flashes of nerves, Letterman explained - to awkward clapping and giggles - that having received a threatening package in the back of his car early one morning, he and his lawyer had called in the Manhattan district attorney's office...
...office ascertained that the alleged blackmailer was serious, then arranged to have a fake check cut, handed it over and then arrested its recipient, whom CBS has identified as one of its employees, Robert "Joe" Halderman, 51, an Emmy-winning producer who had worked on 48 Hours...
...Letterman have a 5-year-old son, Harry, and have been dating since 1986. The comedian now wants to put the "bizarre experience" behind him. "I need to protect my family, I need to protect myself. I hope to protect my job," he said in one of his serious moments, before making a joke about how nobody in the grand jury believed he had had sex. (See the top 10 political sex scandals...
...research was led by Simon Moore, a senior lecturer in Violence and Society Research at Cardiff University in the U.K., who specializes in the study of vulnerable youngsters. Moore had been investigating the factors that lead children to commit serious crimes, when, during the course of his work, he discovered that "kids with the worst problems tend to be impulsive risk takers, and that these kids had terrible diets - breakfast was a Coke and a bag of chips," he says. (See nine kid foods to avoid...
...last year's Olympics were China's flashy coming-out party, the massive military parade commemorating 60 years of communist rule on Oct. 1 marks a more serious side to the rise of the People's Republic. Some 5,000 military personnel and 108 missile trucks - including several carrying ICBMs capable of hitting Washington - proceeded with pomp down Beijing's central avenues as more than 150 fighter aircraft soared overhead. And to make sure the heavens don't rain on their parade, the Chinese will scramble a fleet of fog-dispersing aircraft to intercept storm clouds. The event "will embody...