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...investigators say they can pin the attacks on Pakistan for a number of reasons: the GPS coordinates of the fishing boat the terrorists used to land in Mumbai lead back to the Pakistani city of Karachi; e-mails as well as a phone call claiming responsibility for the attack trace back to Lahore, also in Pakistan, where the LeT has its civilian front...
...enough to link a suspect to both the booty and the crime scene. Indelible but normally invisible, SmartWater can be painted onto valuable items or rigged as a spray to tag thieves or intruders. And because each bottle contains a unique permutation of up to 30 chemical compounds, any trace of it can be incontrovertibly matched to an ownership database as well as to the time and place of a recorded crime...
...mankind has had dough to bake into a crust and stuff to put inside it. In medieval England, they were called pyes, and instead of being predominantly sweet, they were most often filled with meat - beef, lamb, wild duck, magpie pigeon - spiced with pepper, currants or dates. Historians trace pie's initial origins to the Greeks, who are thought to be the originators of the pastry shell, which they made by combining water and flour. The wealthy Romans used many different kinds of meats - even mussels and other types of seafood - in their pies. Meat pies were also often part...
...ghost of J.F.K.? Yes, this is an update of Dickens' A Christmas Carol, with Kennedy as Marley's Ghost. George S. Patton (Kelsey Grammer) is the Ghost of America Past, George Washington (Jon Voight) the Ghost of America Present, and an Angel of Death (Trace Adkins) points Malone to the future. From these wraiths we learn that pacifists like Malone would have been responsible for the continuation of slavery into the 21st century (because they opposed the Civil War) and for the Holocaust (you know why). A flashback to 1938 shows Neville Chamberlain signing the nonaggression pact with Hitler, then...
Though CFL bulbs expend only one-fourth the energy of their incandescent counterparts, they also contain trace amounts of toxic mercury. According to Wofsy, the 5 milligrams of mercury per bulb “doesn’t sound like much, but it adds...