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Alcalay is now 86 years old. He has a wide face and frame and white hair that encircles his large head in a cloud-like wisp. Some years ago he had a double bypass, and the steady toll of macular degeneration over the years have made him legally blind. He reads with the aid of a scanning device that magnifies words from a page on a television monitor, each word filling up almost the entire screen...
...moment, we are losing more than we are winning." Peter Cordingley, World Health Organization spokesman, on the human toll of avian flu, which has killed 18 people in Asia...
...least 39 people were dead and 134 injured. Wreckage and human remains were spread along 50 meters of the tunnel. "We're taking out the dead, or what's left of them," said a rescue worker. "You don't want to know what happened to them." The death toll was expected to rise, but could have been even higher but for the heroics of the train's driver, Vladimir Gorelov, who slammed on the brakes and contacted engineers to shut the power off so that people could get out of the train without risking electrocution. Some 500 people escaped. Despite...
...same in Washington, he has yet to explain how he would pull it off, particularly if faced with a Republican Congress. Kerry long ago made his resume his running mate, but his legislative accomplishments are not plentiful, and his experience in the Senate has taken a toll on his persona. Where Dean denounces the ways of Washington, Kerry honors them; he dwells on the commissions he has chaired and the bills he has sponsored as his way of explaining what values he holds and what skills he brings. The Republicans quickly dispatched party chairman Ed Gillespie to push the line...
...cell-phone wars have taken a toll on AT&T Wireless. In the first of what could be a wave of mergers, the nation's third largest carrier announced it was up for sale. Cingular has reportedly offered $30 billion to snap it up, but other rivals are bidding too. What's in it for consumers? Analysts say that as wireless carriers consolidate, today's generous promos (a gazillion minutes, heavily discounted phones) may get more flinty. But call quality and coverage are likely to improve, since carriers that use similar technical standards (such as AT&T Wireless and Cingular...