Yang, a former chicken vendor, planted bombs sprinkled with rice in parks, telephone booths and commuter trains throughout Taipei. Parents: Madeline might never be found English kids think carrots grow on trees Explosion equipment found in Batumi Airport Missing soldiers' ID found in Iraq Society considers unemployment to be the hardest problem Pakistan objects to Rushdie honors Official: let refugees cross Israel Davit Chkhikvishvili was arrested in Moscow Panel votes to disbar Nifong...

The United States has come under criticism for refusing to ratify the Kyoto Protocol global environmental pact aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Nearly a year after she was ridiculed for calling a war in Lebanon "the birth pangs of a new Middle East," Rice is insisting democracy will come to the region whatever the setbacks. Washington, Paris and other world powers are seeking ways to keep Iran from developing nuclear weapons, while Tehran insists its uranium enrichment...

Arnie Morton s is a Robb Report sort of place catering to people who probably have a little too much money on their hands and not enough time to spend it all. The 48-ounce porterhouse is the price of a sports car, but it may be the dullest piece of prime beef that ever saw fire and smoke correct in every way, but with none of the dimensions of texture or flavor that make steak a more compelling entr e than, say, saut ed chicken breast. We could have sworn that the 5-pound lobster waved at...

The significant financial challenge has to do with covering the bills for old people, but that challenge exists one way or another thanks to Medicare (and the basic reality that senior citizens are largely uninsurable in the private sector) and has relatively little to do with whether or not we can afford to bring universal coverage to the under-65 crowd. It's not at all clear, however, that this is the price we should want to pay, because it does little to fund research and development...

Like the varieties of raw fish and rice inside, no one can guess what is coming. Whatever it is called, the pitch in question, the one Kuwata throws at a tantalizingly slow 66-68 mph, has been the buzz of an otherwise moribund road trip so far for the Pirates. How, then, to explain the way it dives into the dirt, as if to corkscrew a subway tunnel? Or how it can have a similar corkscrew effect on the batter? Like the seaweed that wraps the traditional Japanese dish, the pitch rolls...

Let's face it, Yoko Ono may not be as universally adored as her late husband, but doesn't she look good these days? John Lennon would have undoubtedly still loved her when she was 64, and even today at 74 with barely a line or wrinkle behind her ever present robotic shades. Let's face it, Yoko Ono may not be as universally adored as her late husband, but doesn't she look good these days? John Lennon would have undoubtedly still loved her when she was 64, and even today at 74 with barely a...