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POPSRowling wizardry gets notes for last Potter through US security
NEW YORK - Confronted with intransigent security officials at John F Kennedy Airport, JK Rowling found herself in serious need of one of those flying stick contraptions she dreamed up for the young Harry Potter of her best selling wizardry books as an alternative means of crossing the Atlantic. Ms Rowling's journey home from New York, where she had attended a charity public reading with fellow writers Stephen King and John Irving last month, started to go awry as soon as she reached the terminal. No Madam, they tried to explain, you will not be taking that package beneath your arm on board. Everything must be placed in checked-in baggage. These were the days, of course, that followed revelations of a plot by alleged terrorists in Britain to blow airliners en route to the United States and the restrictions, which are largely still being applied to UK-bound travellers in America, were very clear. Even books could not be taken aboard in hand luggage. But Ms Rowling's bundl
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POPSAustrian girl escapes her "master" after 8 years " ESCAPE Kampusch escaped from a garden outside the house of the kidnapper, who police identified as Wolfgang Priklopil, in Strasshof, a hamlet 25 km (15 miles) outside the capital Vienna and about 10 km from her home, police said. "It seems there was a moment when she was not observed (when) the suspect was busy and she had a chance to escape ...," Chief Inspector Johan Fruestueck told Reuters Television. She showed up in another garden nearby and identified herself to a neighbor. Her captor equipped a 6-sq-metre cell beneath the house's garage with running water, toilet, washing facilities, bed, books, radio and occasionally television, police officials said. Police said they wanted to know details of the relationship between Kampusch and the man, given that she appeared to come down with "Stockholm Syndrome," a psychological condition in which long-held captives begin to identify with their captors." (I noticed this article was also in Latvian and Russian news web sit
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