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...soars through the night sky, disrupts military aviation, wages holy war against those twin bastions of evil, terrorists and corporate bigwigs. He's Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), zillionaire industrialist, and he arrives accompanied by the POW!, BANG! and KA-BOOM! suitable for a movie based on a comic book, but with lots more intelligence than the genre usually demands. It's Iron Man to the rescue, yanking movies and the worldwide box office out of its months-long doldrums and into the stratosphere...
...Like most nightmares, it began innocently enough: Madeleine and her younger twin siblings were left asleep in the apartment while their parents dined with friends at a nearby restaurant. When Kate McCann went to check on them, Madeleine was gone. The story quickly hit the front pages in Britain and much of Europe, and remained a top story all summer. The McCanns - both physicians - proved adept at putting together a well-publicized global campaign to help find Madeleine. They enlisted the help of pop and sports stars, and even had an audience with Pope Benedict...
...contractor, which continues to pay the families their salaries. Former Grumman pilots have criticized the company for using single-engine planes over such dangerous turf. In March 2003, three Grumman employees died in a single-engine-plane crash during a search for the hostages. (The U.S. now requires that twin-engine aircraft be used there.) But the hostages' families ask why the Bush Administration didn't provide more military backup on the contractors' Colombian missions. "Did they really never think this sort of thing could happen?" asks Gonsalves' mother Jo Rosano, of Bristol, Conn. "They sent civilians into a place...
...house in the county of Berkshire. The Ministry of Defense says the trip was part of a training mission designed to help teach the Prince, who is on a brief detachment to the air force from the army, to fly in combat situations. The Chinook, a $20 million twin-rotor helicopter, has been a mainstay for combat troop transport since the Vietnam...
...Olympics Terrorist Threat? The problem, according to Nicholas Bequelin, a China researcher with New York City-based Human Rights Watch, is that the twin forces of repressive policies and rising Han immigration can create a fear in minority populations "that can lead people to do almost anything." It is precisely that kind of fear and bitterness that led to the ugly racial violence in Lhasa by Tibetans against Han Chinese that left more than a dozen Chinese immigrants dead and scores wounded...