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...silence. Later, her body - or should we say "a" body - is recovered and identified by her father, who happens to be a policeman. Alex (Francois Cluzet), the husband, is suspected of the crime, but it is pinned on some serial killers who have been operating in the neighborhood. Now, eight years later, Alex, a doctor, receives an email that seems to show that his wife may still be alive...
...Eight kinds of beer and freshly shucked oysters make the Innamincka Hotel an oasis for travelers on Australia's remote Strzelecki Track. But keeping food and drink cold in the Outback isn't cheap. Every three weeks a diesel tanker must make a 1,600-km round trip from Port Augusta, South Australia, to keep the generators running...
...surprised to see your short item concluding that "The world must do more than watch the Zimbabwe crisis" followed by eight pages on U.S. politics? While the rest of the world falls apart, for you the election circus takes precedence. Craig McNiven, Johannesburg...
Their lives, though, continued along parallel paths. Both men dropped out after long undergraduate careers ("I crammed a four-year program into about eight years," Tindell jokes). Then, in 1978, both started businesses: Mackey, with his then girlfriend, opened a health-food store in Austin; Tindell, with a guy he had worked with at Montgomery Ward, opened a store in Dallas that sold containers...
...holy war. American and Iraqi officials say jihadi groups are deploying female bombers far more frequently to slip past the heavy security cordons that are the backbone of the U.S. military's surge strategy. There have been 21 female suicide attacks so far this year, up from just eight in all of 2007. As sectarian violence has plummeted and a semblance of normality has returned to Iraq, the use of women bombers reflects the jihadis' desperation as much as their lethal determination. On June 22, a female bomber killed 15 people and wounded 45 in Baqubah, 35 miles...