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...world had listened, we may have prevented Darfur, Cambodia, Bosnia and naturally Rwanda." ELIE WIESEL, author and Holocaust survivor, speaking on the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz...
CHARGED. RICHARD HATCH, 43, charmingly Machiavellian, often naked winner of the first Survivor, CBS's hit reality show; with tax evasion, in which he allegedly failed to report earnings, including his $1 million winnings from the show; in Providence, R.I. Though he could receive 10 years in jail, the U.S. Attorney's office said it would recommend a lesser sentence as part of a deal in which Hatch agreed to plead guilty...
...That, in a nutshell, was what J.J. Abrams and his co-creator, Damon Lindelof, decided soon after Lloyd Braun, then ABC's entertainment chairman, gave them this assignment: Write a show about plane-crash castaways on a desert island. The parallel to a certain CBS series was obvious. If Survivor was Gilligan's Island with real people, Lost would be Survivor with fake people. But Abrams, who had raised the spy serial to new heights of cliff-hanging absurdity with Alias, knew that the series would need something extra, something weird, to sustain the audience's interest...
...crocodiles as they trekked through the jungle in search of water. For Aisha Majid, the tribal leader of Nancowry, an island filled with the homeless, the government's actions make no sense. She asks, "When the government can help other countries, why are they letting us down?" Says fellow survivor Aslam Majid, 22, who went five days without water: "People aren't dying from the tsunami. They're dying of thirst and hunger...
...teen was exhibiting the first symptoms of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (VCJD), the human version of mad cow disease, and there could only be one prognosis. But three years later, his condition is no longer considered terminal. Thanks to a controversial new therapy, he may become the first known survivor of a disease that has killed 147 Britons since 1995. After the diagnosis, Simms' father Don read about the use of an anticoagulant called pentosan polysulphate (PPS) to delay the onset of scrapie, a disease which produces similar brain lesions in sheep as VCJD does in humans. The drug...