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...babies home instead as tourists--a possible immigration offense. They also obtained their "home study," required of adoptive parents in both the U.S. and Britain, from a private social worker. That may have passed muster in Arkansas, but it is unacceptable in Britain. In the wake of a torrent of public disgust, officials in northern Wales obtained a court order and last week swooped down on the Kilshaw home, removing the twins to foster care, at least for now. The Kilshaws plan to contest that move at a hearing this week...
Time passes. Things change. The doctor is back, meaner--and louder--than ever. Next month the sequel to The Silence of the Lambs will arrive in theaters on a torrent of hype and with great expectations. While Hopkins had only a few indelible scenes in Silence, in Hannibal he is front and center in the title role. The image of the red-eyed devil glowers on billboards all over the world. And the box-office well-being of the $80 million sequel depends almost entirely on audiences' fascination with Hopkins' character. The movie itself? You will love it or hate...
...when Insider.com broke the news last week about the book deal between HBSP, Kamen and the book's ghost author, Steve Kemper, the story unleashed a torrent of speculation about the nature of the invention. Some imagine that it might be a personal hovercraft, others simply a high-tech scooter...
...affection. The Barking Bone aims to scare away the bad guys while still keeping canine-hating homeowners sane. Fairall implanted a motion sensor inside a giant, apparently gnawed, dog bone made of solid resin. When the sensor is tripped, a sound chip emits a low growl followed by a torrent of ferocious barking...
...have been on holiday. Except at the FBI, where agents have been interviewing the handful of Bush aides who had access to the material. The one senior Bush adviser who hadn't been interviewed as of Saturday afternoon was chief campaign strategist Karl Rove. That fact alone started a torrent of speculation. The storm intensified with reports that the FBI had identified a suspect within the Bush campaign. That cued Austin to counter indignantly with its own unfounded accusation--that the Clinton-Gore Justice Department was leaking lies to sow chaos in the Bush campaign. In Goreland, they were sweating...