Top Gun and Batman actor Val Kilmer dies aged 65
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The Top Gun and Batman Forever actor died of pneumonia on Thursday, his
daughter said.
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KINGSTON — A vehicle chase that ended with a 28-year-old Kingston man shot by police is under investigation, according to the state police at Kingston.
Police said that when they attempted to pull over a 1995 Honda driven by Raymond Snyder Friday morning for an inadequate exhaust system, the driver sped away and eventually fled on foot. He was shot by an Ulster County sheriff's deputy. The deputy was assisting state and Kingston city police.
Snyder was listed in critical but stable condition at a hospital in Albany County, according to police.
ScienceDaily (Apr. 13, 2011) — If mice commuted, their brains might find it progressively harder to navigate the maze of Los Angeles freeways. A new study reveals that after short-term exposure to vehicle pollution, mice showed significant brain damage -- including signs associated with memory loss and Alzheimer's disease.
Then we have the French mission. Operation Harmattan. Wiki says, "The Harmattan is a dry and dusty West African trade wind. It blows south from the Sahara into the Gulf of Guinea between the end of November and the middle of March." Now of course, this operation was begun at the end of the season's wind, but Libya of course is in the Sahara, while the Ivory Cost rests on the nothern edge of the Gulf of Guinea.
UN, French fire on Gbagbo residence in Ivory Coast
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast – United Nations and French helicopters fired rockets on strongman Laurent Gbagbo's residence on Sunday in an assault the U.N. said was to retaliate for attacks by his forces on U.N. headquarters and civilians.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he had authorized the strikes, accusing Gbagbo of using heavy weapons against Ivory Coast civilians and the U.N. forces trying to protect them...
...Gbagbo has been living in a bunker in his residence in Abidjan for nearly a week. After a decade in power, he refuses to step aside even though the United Nations has ruled that he lost the November presidential election to Alassane Ouattara.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110411/ap_on_re_af/af_ivory_coast