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...when they went to a nearby hospital, they received ordinary medication for a cold and were sent home. A week later, when the children did not improve and their father told doctors about the chicken deaths, they were transferred to a better-equipped hospital in the nearby city of Van. Blood samples from the Kocyigits were sent to Ankara for tests, which showed that the children had contracted the deadly h5n1 strain of bird flu that has killed about half of those in Asia whose infections have been reported to the World Health Organization (who). By then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turkey Copes With Bird Flu | 1/15/2006 | See Source »

...STAFF SERGEANT CHAD CARPENTIER and LANCE CORPORALS DANIEL SMITH, DOMINIC DUPLANTIS and KEITH SILKWOOD; with the rape of a 22-year-old Filipino woman; in Olongapo City, the Philippines. The four U.S. Marines, in the country to participate in military exercises, are accused of raping the woman in a van on Nov. 1 at the former U.S. naval base of Subic Bay. The soldiers, who deny the charges, face a court martial in Okinawa in addition to their trial in the Philippines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 1/1/2006 | See Source »

...police in five years of living in Athens. That is until, he claims, several Greek and British intelligence officers kidnapped him a week after the July 7 bombings in London. "What happened," he stutters in halting Greek, "was frightening." Hayatt alleges that he was hooded and bundled into a van with six others, then "taken to a nice house about 30 minutes from Athens. I was asked about what I knew of the London bombings. I said, 'Nothing. Just what I saw on TV.'" His captors, Hayatt says, spoke Greek and English. He claims they did not physically harm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stubborn Charges | 12/31/2005 | See Source »

...Killer How's this for a high concept? A professional hit man (Jan Decleir) is suffering from the early stages of Alzheimer's, but must still pursue one last bloody job. You can imagine what Hollywood might do with that idea. What you can't imagine is what Eric Van Looy, a gifted Belgian director does with it in his low key, persuasively realistic thriller. His killer, whose moral sense is completely intact, no matter what's going wrong with his less-than-total recall, learns that his wet work is designed to protect a ring of child vicious child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best of 2005: Richard Schickel's Best Movie Picks | 12/17/2005 | See Source »

...Meredith Morton, a prissy and uptight executive, meeting her boyfriend Everett Stone’s (Dermot Mulroney) parents for the first time, in “The Family Stone” Parker channels a woman more Bree Van Der Camp (of “Desperate Housewives”) than Carrie Bradshaw...

Author: By Jessica C. Coggins, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Family Stone | 12/14/2005 | See Source »

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