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...might have been the sound of wheels spinning in mud, or perhaps the chattering whine of a tortured transmission. Or it might have been the increasingly loud imprecations I was directing at my driver. Whatever the cause, we had suddenly become the focus of several hundred wild elephants. Those nearest began to stomp toward us, thumping their trunks on the ground...
...close for comfort. "You're very fortunate," said Premaratna, our septuagenarian guide. "I've never seen so many herds assembled at one time." He estimated that there were about 1,000 elephants graying the grassy expanse that is the Minneriya-Giritale Sanctuary?about a third of the country's wild-elephant population...
...lightened up in action films. In Shanghai Shanghai, she showed her dancing skill in a wild kung fu tango with Yuen Biao. She played the double role of a (male) emperor and his ancient (male) ancestor in Wu Yen. She graced three Jackie Chan films (playing his stepmom in Drunken Master II) and four with Stephen Chow. Her finest fantasy role was as Tung the Wonder Woman in The Heroic Trio and Executioners, in which she joins forces with Maggie Cheung and Michelle Yeoh to save the world. Even in this comic-book chaos, she has an iconic Mui moment...
...duty, but his mother is worried his luck will run out before he can get home. After U.S. troops arrested Saddam Hussein on Dec. 13, a bullet narrowly missed Marquette's head while he was on patrol in Baghdad. "He says it's worse now. They've gotten really wild," says Catherine...
DIED. KEIKO, 27, the killer whale who starred in three Free Willy movies; of pneumonia; in the Taknes fjord, Norway. Keiko spent several years in captivity in Iceland after efforts to return him to the wild failed. He was released in 2002 but swam for the Norwegian coast, apparently seeking the company of humans...