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...first wife died of cancer at 31. With four sons to raise, the eldest only seven, he remarried within a year. Two of his sons developed drug problems, and in 1985 he and his wife temporarily separated and he sought solace in a Christian retreat in a Washington suburb. Rumors that he was having an affair with a 28-year-old secretary were exacerbated when a woman he was with at National Airport screamed that Durenberger had "ruined" her life and knocked him to the floor with her purse. After that incident, Durenberger began giving interviews in Phil Donahue-speak...
...Bath Iron Works in Bath, Me., who got "sunburns" one rainy day when someone on a Navy frigate flicked on the ship's radar. Or the trash fires that start spontaneously from time to time near the radio and TV broadcast antennas in downtown Honolulu. Or the pristine suburb of Vernon, N.J., that has both one of the world's highest concentrations of satellite transmitting stations and a persistent -- and unexplained -- cluster of Down's syndrome cases...
Picture yourself seated in the garden of an elegant country dacha in an exclusive suburb of Moscow. You sip tea while you admire the golden hues of the lingering Russian sunset. Seated across from you, physicist Andrei Sakharov talks plainly about his life...
...hasn't Escobar been found and captured? Nearly 2,000 national police have been assigned full time to the manhunt, and Escobar is almost certainly hiding in Envigado, a suburb of Medellin. But knowing his whereabouts and bringing him to justice are two different matters. Escobar is well protected in Envigado, which he once represented in congress. Even on the run, he is hard to find in a mainly rural country nearly as large as France, Spain and Portugal combined...
...pipe fitter from a working-class suburb of Paris, Tapie carried sacks of coal as a youngster to help pay the family's rent. He graduated from a second-rate engineering school rather than from one of the grandes ecoles that train France's business and bureaucratic elite. For a decade, he has been challenging the country's risk-averse Establishment; his specialty is reviving troubled companies in niche industries. Tapie once had a popular TV show on which he preached, "Create companies and earn big money through entrepreneurship." The program was unabashedly named Ambition, and his best- selling book...