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Then normality broke out. By January, with the smoke clearing in Afghanistan, cable news was back to hockey-rage trials, Mike Tyson-biting scandals and the Sept. 10-era question, How do you grab viewers on slow news days? Fox, it turned out, had the most successful answer. Last month, for the first time, the network outdrew CNN in total-day viewers, despite being available in 9 million fewer homes. On the whole, its viewership was up 109% over the year (CNN countered that because its own audience grew 51% over the same period, Fox's gains did not come...
...Unfortunately, he's still at large, and the "we'll smoke him out" rhetoric might sound a little tinny...
...Adrenaline bursts aside, it's hard to feel invincible inside the PC caf? these days. Phuong Huu Ly, 20, a junior at Santa Ana college, wanted to play Counterstrike here one night at the end of December but all the computers were taken, so he stepped out for a smoke. Once outside, according to police, he encountered four gang members, one of who allegedly stabbed him in the head with a screwdriver. He died in a nearby hospital eight hours later. Police have said that Ly was a "gang associate" and that the slaying may have been the result...
...strokes, the first of Diamond’s two paintings exudes a dark, smoggy, compact atmosphere, evoking the scene of hazy, indistinct skyscrapers. “Untitled (City)” (2001), on the other hand, blazes with brilliant hues: oranges, yellows bleeding onto a bright blue sky, with smoke rising out of a skyscraper. Diamond’s untitled painting seemed eerily and painfully reminiscent of Sept. 11—or perhaps that is simply too much conjecture regarding Diamond’s intentions...
...International Airport on Nov. 12. According to an NTSB source, the plane can be seen "flying along normally and intact, and suddenly things start to go very wrong." The video records the plane as it begins its descent. The crash is obscured, but the tape continues to run and smoke can be seen rising from the scene. Experts at the NTSB are optimistic that the tape will help answer critical questions about the precise sequence of events as the plane began to break apart, and exactly how and when the tail section separated from the body of the plane. This...