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...While newspapers and magazines cater to the casual princess watcher, some pilgrims want more solid mementos. Every summer they descend on Althorp, the historical home of Diana?s family, where for $25 they can walk through the rooms she played in as a child, check out the small museum that exhibits her favorite dresses and personal letters, gaze upon her grave that sits on an island in the middle of a lake - and pick up souvenirs, like a heart-shaped key ring ($12) or a bone china pillbox ($30). Diana merchandise still sells in main streets and malls in Britain...
...ready for a dry summer. According to the U.S. Drought Monitor, half the continental U.S. is currently experiencing abnormal dryness or drought. Over the past four years, migrating drought patterns have spread toward the Eastern shores, crippling crops, shrinking lakes and drying up wells this month in eight Southern states, particularly Alabama. Meanwhile, the Northeast and much of the Midwest have been spared...
...until Nathan's annual hot-dog-eating contest. An ambitious real estate developer has bought up two-thirds of Coney Island's main amusement district, and no one is quite sure what will become of it in the fall. "I've been telling everyone to live it up this summer," says Dianna Carlin, who sells T shirts in a pink-walled shop by the beach. "This could be the last season of Coney Island as we know...
This was to be the summer of threequels, with franchises like Pirates, Spider-Man 3 and Shrek the Third stoking the audience's addiction to familiar stories writ large. But those films came out in May. Then what? "The summer began under a cloud of tentpoles," says Marc Shmuger, chairman of Universal Pictures, which has bet heavily on comedies, including Knocked Up and Evan Almighty. "We felt there would be demand for an entertaining alternative. And the success of Knocked Up shows how large the thirst for a great, funny movie really is. I think by September we will...
...Still, the summer is likely to see the endgame in the pursuit of war criminals in the Balkans, including, almost certainly, more high-profile arrests. The European Union and Washington have other business in the region: they want to see Kosovo, still a Serbian province, granted its independence, and one way to overcome Serbian opposition to that plan is to promise the country closer ties with Western institutions such as the E.U. and NATO, all of which will be easier if Serbia clears the decks by handing over most of its remaining indicted war criminals - a deal that the government...