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...Aliyev has other enemy in-laws. His wife's sister and her husband are rivals for power within the family as well. As for now, however, the all-powerful father-in-law has had Kazakhstan's Prosecutor General's Office close down several print, broadcast and online outlets of the media-holding company controlled by Aliyev and Dariga. That vast empire will be now redistributed among the President's supporters. The police searched Dariga's house, in spite of her immunity as a member of parliament. "Getting rid of Aliyev is good news," says one analyst in Kazakhstan...
Blue set off for his first deployment to Iraq on July 4, 2005. He joined the Marine campaign in Anbar province, leading a platoon in the Fallujah area. Even in the desert reaches of Iraq, Blue found ways to call Bell and his younger sister Amy Blue, who was living in Ireland at the time. "Those phone calls from him were the highlights of my days," says Amy. "Hearing him across all those miles, it was like he was right there with me." He was killed halfway through a second tour in Anbar, while riding in the passenger seat...
...Regis Residences The latest addition to U.S.-based developer Starwood's internationally known St. Regis line of upscale properties, these 173 luxury flats sold out quickly at record prices after hitting the market last June. When the St. Regis and its sister hotel, located next door, are completed in 2008, they'll rise over an upgraded Orchard Road, Singapore's main shopping district
...playing Houston, and this lady came up on stage and sang with me, as sometimes happens. She was crying. And I said, 'Are you hurt? What's wrong?' And she replied: 'I'm crying for joy. I was diagnosed with breast cancer a few years ago and my sister brought your music to play me. And I hung on to your music all through my illness. Now I'm in remission. I'm safe.'" Kidjo exhales in wonder. "I mean, what more proof do you need...
...alternative uses for tobacco, working in a biotechnology lab that summer and arriving at the discovery that “the tobacco plant is very helpful for developing a vaccine for one type of HIV.” On a 2004 summer trip to India, Pasricha worked with her sister Sarina, who had graduated from the College that year, to develop the Global Youth Health, Education, and Leadership Program, or HELP. With funding from Tobacco-Free Kids, a non-profit organization, Pasricha said that she created the program to improve Indian female education and youth health awareness about the perils...