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...they began unloading their weapons onto the 439-ft.-long, seven-deck cruise ship. Passengers scrambled to a central lounge for safety as two grenades slammed into the Spirit, where at least one of them exploded. Just as the pirates tried to board, the Spirit's captain managed to shift into overdrive and head farther out to sea. Frustrated, the bandits turned back toward the coast...
...shift has caused many to ask whether prevalence has really increased 200-fold in half a century, or whether the definition of depression has been deliberately broadened and blurred by drug companies and others - part of a trend to medicalize moods that were once accepted as falling within the normal range of human emotions. Despite record sales of antidepressants in Australia, drug companies and mental-health lobby groups maintain there are still hundreds of thousands of Australians with undiagnosed depression...
...Anywhere Inventor: Blake Krikorian Availability: Now, $250 To Learn More: slingmedia.com Every so often, a handy gadget comes along and changes our TV habits. In the 1990s WebTV married the Net with the tube, and TiVo famously began freeing us from network schedules. Now comes a new appliance to shift not when you watch your TV but where. Slingbox hooks up to your home set and beams whatever is onscreen to any Web-enabled device loaded with special software. Waiting for a plane in Paris? Use your laptop and the airport's wireless network to watch the local news from...
DIED. C.P. ELLIS, 78, whose transformation from Ku Klux Klan Grand Cyclops to civil rights activist was chronicled in the book The Best of Enemies and the film An Unlikely Friendship; in Durham, N.C. The cause of the shift: a 1971 community forum on violence as Durham tried to integrate its schools. Over 10 days of talks, he became so close to his adversary and co-chair, desegregationist Ann Atwater, that he denounced the Klan and joined her efforts...
...items assembled by the National Jewelry Institute: knickknacks of the rich and famous. Who, after all, wouldn't want to see J.P. Morgan's Cartier cologne holder, right, or William Randolph Hearst's buffalo-horn drinking cup, above? Come March, the bric-a-brac exhibit will shift from the first half of the 20th century to the latter, featuring, among other items, Elvis' most utilitarian bling--his gold Dunhill lighter...