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...latest to vanish is Li Guanqing, the Shandong province villager. A few minutes after Li spoke to a TIME journalist on the night of Feb. 12, a police car with sirens blazing screeched up to the curb near Li's bedraggled tent. Somebody, it seems, had alerted the cops that a nosy foreigner was asking questions about sensitive matters. The tight security was unsurprising, given an emergency notice circulated to officials by the Ministry of Land and Resources this month that urged: "When signs of petitioners entering Beijing arise, [officials] must mobilize all local channels to engage in dissuasion work...
Well, kids, take it from someone who has collected his first Social Security check: the sexual impulse doesn't vanish with age, even if--how to say this delicately?--execution sometimes falters. There's plenty of evidence--scientific and otherwise--that healthy seniors, even residents of nursing homes, continue to have active sex lives. Consider the decision of a Riverdale, N.Y., senior home to permit trysts among clients as long as they are consensual. Or the buzz about the film Something's Gotta Give, in which Jack Nicholson plays a 62-year-old roue who boasts of never having...
...long gone. He had left his sat-phone behind, and according to Afghan security officials, a local laborer had apparently switched it on. Outside Wazir's house, nine children were shooting marbles in the dirt. Around 10:30 a.m., villagers saw the Warthog circle once over the house, vanish behind a mountain and come roaring back, firing what villagers said were 35 explosive rounds. Each was powerful enough to destroy a tank. The children were in the pilot's field of attack. There was little left of them except the marbles, a few shredded prayer caps and small pools...
...long gone. He had left his sat-phone behind, and according to Afghan security officials, a local laborer had apparently switched it on. Outside Wazir's house, nine children were shooting marbles in the dirt. Around 10:30 a.m., villagers saw the Warthog circle once over the house, vanish behind a mountain and come roaring back, firing what villagers said were 35 explosive rounds. Each was powerful enough to destroy a tank. The children were in the pilot's field of attack. There was little left of them except the marbles, a few shredded prayer caps and small pools...
...have brought us the now Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger attempting to joke (T3: Rise of the Machines), Sofia Coppola attempting to emote (The Godfather Part III) and, most terrible of all, the Ewoks (The Return of the Jedi). This year has already seen the third and hopefully final Matrix film vanish faster than Carrie-Anne Moss's career, although nothing is likely to stop the last Lord of the Rings when it sweeps across cinemas like an army of ravaging orcs. In between comes Hong Kong's own Infernal Affairs III (IA3), the final chapter of the taut cops-and-triads...