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...action rather than risk being left on the sidelines with no influence over events. U.S. officials are confident that their evidence on all three counts - deceit, weapons programs and terrorist links - will make a compelling case. And presenting such evidence in a public forum naturally turns up the heat on more reluctant allies...
...course, there's more to high-tech housewares these days than computer chips. The pricey $30 Orka oven mitt from iSi North America is made of silicone, like many new spatulas. Heat-and flame-resistant up to 500°F, the stain-proof glove allows you to pluck hard-boiled eggs and potatoes out of boiling water and grab chicken wings that fall through the barbecue grill. We found the stiff material a little awkward, however, for pulling pans from the oven...
DIED. RICHARD CRENNA, 76, versatile character actor; of pancreatic cancer; in Los Angeles. Known to '50s TV viewers as squeaky-voiced student Walter Denton in Our Miss Brooks, he created solid characters in such films as Wait Until Dark, Rambo, The Flamingo Kid and Body Heat...
...viewers as the grandson of a meddling hillbilly in The Real McCoys and later to moviegoers as Rambo's Vietnam War commander in First Blood (1982) and its two sequels. Crenna's movie credits also include the suspense thriller Wait Until Dark (1967) and sizzling film noir Body Heat...
...have ever seen footage of Buddhist monks sitting in the Himalayan snow, warming cold towels draped over their shoulders and back with body heat generated by meditation, you have seen at work the power of the mind over the body. The monks can manipulate their metabolism to redirect the body's energy from warming its core to heating its surface; the drop in internal metabolic rate is well documented. Similar results have been observed in studies of patients having surgery; patients who meditated experienced less operative bleeding than controls given placebos...