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PALM TREAT The new Palm i705 ($450) is a step closer to the easy, flexible wireless e-mail access all handheld users crave. Unlike the Palm VII, the i705 checks your e-mail constantly instead of just when you ask, and it alerts you when it arrives. If the i705 had a mini-keyboard like its rival, the RIM BlackBerry, we'd give it a high five...
Christian VII, King of Denmark in the latter half of the 18th century, was madder than a host of Hamlets. His minders hired an idealistic young physician to take care of him, but when the doctor used his access to the weak-minded King to take control of the nation--and to romance the hot-blooded young Queen--things went very rotten indeed. Enquist, a celebrated Swedish novelist, turns this actual historical incident into an enthralling fable of the temptations of power--and a surprisingly poignant love story...
...search for the bodies of 25 Chinese illegal immigrants, dumped overboard from a Korean fishing boat after they suffocated in a storage tank. The dead were among a group of 60 trying to reach Korea to find work. South Korean police arrested the captain and crew of the Taechangho VII. BELIZE Storm Damage The year?s most violent Atlantic storm, with winds of up to 225 km/h, killed 21 American divers. Although major towns were spared by Hurricane Iris, virtually every small community in the south of Belize was hit. Some 99% of village housing was destroyed, leaving...
...Although she has been dead since 30 B.C., Cleopatra VII, the last of the Ptolemaic rulers, still wields considerable power. The magic of her name is drawing crowds to the British Museum's exhibition "Cleopatra of Egypt: From History to Myth," which runs until Aug. 26 and includes some new finds and interpretations. The museum has attracted loans of Cleopatra-related sculptures, coins, paintings, ceramics, jewelry and other artifacts from some 30 museums, libraries and private collections, stretching from Russia to Algeria to Canada...
...star of the museum's exhibition, though, is a 104-cm black basalt statue on loan from the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. One of the best-preserved representations of a Ptolemaic queen, it has been identified as Cleopatra VII. The figure is holding a double cornucopia and wearing a headdress decorated with three cobras-symbols associated only with...