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...After an 11-hour police standoff, Baty escaped. She was determined never to be a victim again. Her book A Girl's Gotta Do What a Girl's Gotta Do (Rodale) offers plans for staying safe while working, shopping, traveling, surfing the Net or going on a date. To avoid being dosed with a date-rape drug, she advises, keep your cocktail within sight at all times, and use Drink Safe Coasters, which can instantly apply a litmus-like test to a drink that may have been tampered with...
...left the special police force for the world of organized crime, allegedly felt Djindjic coming after him - and decided it was time to do something about it. According to Serb officials, the ex-commando ordered the assassination of Djindjic, Serbia's first Prime Minister in the democratic era, to avoid being put in jail himself. The gangland-style assassination - Djindjic was gunned down by sniper fire in broad daylight - recalled both the reign of terror that seized Serbia in the final years of Milosevic's rule and the chaos and dread that many Serbs had hoped was behind them. Known...
...commonly credited with inventing the genre of humorous science fiction was a tragic figure with a chaotic personal life and a pan-galactic case of writer's block. "I love deadlines," Adams once said. "I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by." Adams learned to avoid reality around age 5, when his parents divorced. Tall, shy and unathletic, he longed to be John Cleese, star of the Monty Python troupe. Adams had the height (hitting his full 1.91 m as a teen) and a taste for clowning. So when he went off to Cambridge he gravitated...
...shorter track records of democracy and alliance—but not from France, whose modern history has been closely intertwined with that of the United States. Unfortunately, France may be looking out for its supplies of oil from Iraq. With a global turndown still underway, France is trying to avoid the inflationary pressures and production slow-down a war—or the serious threat of war—can cause...
...know what to say to them, so it feels kind of awkward,” Mendenhall says. “[After shows] I usually try and relax and not talk to many people, unless they want to talk to me, but for the most part, I avoid my band...