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...Florida] Panhandle know as well as folks in Miami that the base line for excellence in areas like education, criminal justice and the environment should be higher here." What about her Parkinson's disease? As Reno, 63, travels the state in a red Ford pickup, her de facto campaign symbol, her illness hardly seems an issue. Says ex-N.O.W. president Patricia Ireland, another South Florida denizen urging Reno to run: "The same people knocking her are the ones who said Hillary Clinton couldn't sell herself outside New York City." She adds that if Democrats must win the north...
...simpler for me before I started thinking that I could be Dylan Klebold's mother. Klebold, the Littleton, Colo., teen who along with his buddy Eric Harris murdered 13 people in a rampage at Columbine High School in 1999, has etched his surname into the national consciousness as a symbol of everything that could go wrong in a family. Like many parents, I had always assumed--perhaps hoped--that once this family's story was known, it would be clear that the parents were checked out, maybe even uncaring, and so on some level responsible for their son's monstrosity...
...sweaty towel and Madonna's sunglasses contain traces of their DNA," says Andre Crump of the DNA Copyright Institute, based in San Francisco. "It could be used to create an unauthorized clone." For $1,500, Crump will provide celebs with a (c) on their genes. Of course, a symbol isn't necessary to prove that anyone's DNA is unique. Maybe that's why no celebs have signed...
...Durrani heard in July that Bilal Khar was trying to bribe Fakhra's family to withdraw the complaint, she confronted them. "Do not fear him," she warned the family. "Fear me!" (The complaint remains in force.) Durrani wants justice. "I'm looking for accountability," she says. "Fakhra is a symbol of the disorder of my country and any other Muslim country where women don't have a voice...
...internal conflict has fueled some of China's most dramatic confrontations. The 1919 May Fourth movement, still a potent symbol of resistance, advocated Western notions of science and democracy. When conservative forces rejected those demands, China slipped back toward insularity. During the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s, Mao whipped up an antiforeign hysteria that prompted the Red Guards to attack all things imported. In 1967, they burned down the British chancery in Beijing. Protesters at Tiananmen Square in 1989 echoed calls for adopting the liberal political approach of the West; the crackdown set China back yet again. "Throughout history...