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...find direct clues about a criminal--a dropped matchbox, for instance. But Teten looked at the way the criminal committed the crime to build a psychological profile of him--his personality, his mental status. "You might see overreaction toward a certain part of the body or use of the weapon in a way that is not usually seen," Teten says...
...Shaolin Temple at 16. At 25 Li Lianjie came to Hong Kong, got the name Jet Li and brought a ferocious stateliness to such martial epics as Once Upon a Time in China and Fong Sai Yuk. At 35 he played in his first big U.S. film, Lethal Weapon 4, and showed Mel Gibson how real men fight: with stern grace and fatal feet. His debut as a Hollywood star, in Romeo Must Die, took in $100 million world- wide. He has just signed a deal with Miramax Films worth $10 million a picture. In China, movie stars are called...
...Sierra Leone soldiers are also used to carrying semiautomatic AK-47s. They would shoot from the hip or hold the weapon away from the body and fire almost indiscriminately. Britain has supplied the army with 15,000 self-loading rifles and must now retrain the soldiers to use them. "We're trying to teach them that it's not so much the firepower they put down, it's the accuracy," says Sgt. Maj. Davey Averill, who oversees weapon handling. For the first week the Sierra Leone soldiers practice without bullets. "Some of them are struggling," says Averill. "They...
Prosecutor Jim FitzGerald finds such speculation "inflammatory" and not relevant to the court's goals regarding Oakley. He says the order by Banales is too narrowly drafted to be of much use to other prosecutors and is, in any case, a weapon against intentional dereliction, not a "financial litmus test" for parenthood. "What it really means," he says, is "if you have a kid, you have to pay support to your best ability and not just blow...
...funny about a virus for which there is no cure? A: Nothing! Just as there was nothing funny about apartheid. The word comedy is misleading. I don't make jokes about AIDS. I aim to make people laugh at their prejudices and confront their fears. Humor is a great weapon, an extraordinary leveler. You can counter all the misinformation with humor. Q: I assume you're referring to President Thabo Mbeki's controversial stance on AIDS? A: You know, 99% of the world knows that HIV leads to AIDS. We're governed by the 1% who doesn...