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Military coups have been mostly a spectator sport in Thailand, much like sex scandals in the United States. I once asked a senior Thai general after an attempted coup by army officers why the plotters had been allowed to go free after several months. In Korea, they would have been shot. He smiled. “You know,” he said, “it doesn’t snow in Thailand.” Last week it snowed in Thailand. The army tried to legitimize its coup, but this time the people of Bangkok refused to lie down....

While DK has for the most part stuck to 2D, there was one notable instance on the Nintendo 64 where that console’s entry transitioned to full 3D. Donkey Kong 64 launched the series into the 3rd dimension, building upon the platforming formula of Super Mario 64 in an even larger, almost open-world environment for the time. Rare’s ambitious project pushed the N64 to its limits, proving that the Donkey Kong series was just as capable to jump to 3D as Mario and Link, as this was the big push during this console generation....

For new iPad users who have never owned an iPhone or iPod Touch, simple things like finding good apps, installing them, organizing them, or even deleting them might take some time to figure out. Even for users that know the basics of navigation, there are tips and tricks that can help you be more productive using the iPad. Learning the iPad Basics Most navigation on the iPad is done with simple touch gestures, such as touching an icon to launch the application or swiping your finger left or right across the screen to move from one screen of app icons to the next....

RELATED: A Plague Tale: Requiem Review If players want to achieve 100 percent of the achievements available in A Plague Tale: Requiem, they’ll need to get their hands on all the goodies listed below. Thankfully, the newest title makes it easier than ever to collect any missed items as there are multiple chapter checkpoints to help players navigate through each chapter faster. Chapter 1 Herbarium (Under A New Sun) There are no Herbarium items to be found in this chapter....

Marshall Scholars for the Kigali Public Library has joined local Rwandans and the Rotary Club of Kigali-Virunga with the hope of opening the library by the end of 2004–10 years after the country’s catastrophic genocide. Nearly all of the 2002 class has participated in the project by fund-raising, making donations or helping publicize the group’s efforts. Eleven have spent the last few weeks in Rwanda, meeting with President Paul Kagame, discussing the 1994 tragedy with survivors and hauling rocks and wooden beams to help build the library itself....

Soft tissue almost never survives fossilization, but that wasn’t the only surprise. Based on 3-D images from the scans, the 650-pound plant-eater’s heart may have more in common with yours than with a crocodile’s. Modern reptiles are sluggish; their three-chambered hearts let blood flow back to the body before picking up energy-giving oxygen from the lungs. Birds and mammals–and, it seems, Thescelosaurus –have a more efficient four-chamber design, which delivers oxygen-rich blood to the muscles and provides the energy to make us warm-blooded so we don’t have to bask in the sun to get moving in the morning....

Meanwhile, NEWSWEEK has learned the CIA recently reported that counterdrug and crop-substitution programs in Andean nations have had little effect. After four years and hundreds of millions spent, the CIA says the Bolivian coca crop is down “slightly.” Peru’s is up 9 percent, with a larger increase projected for 1994. Drugwar boosters in the Pentagon insist the plan disrupts dealers and should continue.

Rodriguez withdrew his suit against Dr. Christopher Ahmad “for the sole purpose of having no legal distractions” as the third baseman anticipates returning to play after the season-long suspension he’s serving this year, attorney Alan S. Ripka said. “He wants to focus on being the best baseball player he can be, the best Yankee he can be, and wants nothing to distract him from those goals,” the attorney said....

But are people really taking A-Rod serious? Probably not. You know what would help? If Frank Caliendo read the letter as Morgan Freeman. MORE: Stop analyzing A-Rod’s handwriting | Pablo Sandoval is big | Cubs’ Billy goat Oh, he already did? Let’s watch. Caliendo read the beautifully scribed letter on “Mike & Mike,” where he pulled out impressive imitations of Freeman along with Jon Gruden and Chris Berman. Morgan Freeman makes everything better....

All in a day’s work for the lab in Ashland, Ore., that in just a year has gained a reputation as the Scotland Yard for animals. Poachers often go free because of the difficulty in proving the origin of a few feathers, say, or even a freezer full of steaks, so the lab is developing scientific identifcation procedures that stand up in court. Among them is an electron-microscope technique to differentiate fossil mammoth ivory–which is legal–from forbidden (and almost identical) elephant ivory....

Yet for a sports world in which perception is often governed by first-grade math, a sixth Super Bowl for this New England dynasty is a big deal. Now the history books list the Patriots as six-time Super Bowl champions, tied with the Steelers for the most of all time, with an NFL-record 37 postseason wins. Because five titles in 17 years with the same coach and QB, in a league designed to prevent such a run, was not enough....

Although the Kennedys’ marriage lasted 25 years and produced three children, the church could still find grounds for concluding that their union was invalid. Since Vatican Council II, the traditional grounds for obtaining an annulment-in effect, a declaration that one or more of the requirements of a sacramental marriage was missing in the first place–have been more liberally interpreted. Typically, annulments are granted if officials find that one or both partners did not intend a permanent, faithful marriage or to have children....

SNL will be release a new two-hour special that will be jam-packed with Thanksgiving-themed skits and sketches that’ll no doubt cheer the whole family up and distract them from the stress of preparing for the holiday. Like in previous years, the SNL special will highlight a number of sketches they have had in past seasons that are focused on the holiday. Here’s how you can watch the show and what to expect....

Just last week scientists predicted a 70 percent chance of a major quake in the San Francisco area by 2030. Killer quakes hit Turkey and Taiwan this year. Are they all related? No reason to think so, says Tom Henyey of the Southern California Earthquake Center, but he adds, “there may be some underlying phenomenon we haven’t discovered yet.”

Onimusha began life on the PS2 way back in 2001 as a fun melding of Resident Evil’s horror themes and tank-control style with traditional Japanese folklore and samurai gameplay. The game spawned three sequels, with the last title being Onimusha Dawn of Dreams, and it skewed more towards the action-centric gameplay of another one of Capcom’s supernatural series: Devil May Cry. While many fans enjoyed the fast-paced gameplay and options for co-op play, many others were left disappointed by the move away from Onimusha’s horror roots....