Bad Guys

Forget about melting polar caps. The real problem with global warming, according to a new series debuting on ABC tonight, is what it's doing to our DNA. According to "Prey" (8 p.m.-9 p.m., WMAR, Channel 2), slowly warming temperatures over the past 100 years have altered human DNA enough (varying it by 1.6 percent, a pretty substantial amount when it comes to genetics) to create a new species. They look just like us, but there's a key difference: They have no emotions, which they insist makes them far superior.

The usual suspects. That's the focus of the Baltimore Police Department's explanation of the city's unconscionably high number of murders. The majority of the city's 275 murders in 2006 - more than 80 percent - involved people with criminal records, both the suspected killers and their victims. Bad guys were killing bad guys, that's the bottom line - as though that analysis should make anyone feel safer in a city that remains among the most deadly in the United States. The usual suspects - most with a violent, drug-involved past - are responsible for committing more murders last year than in 2005, an increase of six. But who's doing the killing shouldn't keep Baltimore residents from demanding that the killing stop.

For those honoring the revered Preakness tradition of wearing a hat, there was an unwelcome guest at the Corporate Village yesterday: the wind. Strong gusts forced many women to hang onto their hats with one hand, while holding down their flippy skirts with the other. Often, there were races to watch other than those happening on the track, as women chased their flying hats across the Village turf. Carrying a chic handbag only added to the challenge. Consider Maryland first lady Kendel Ehrlich.

It's all Clint (almost) all day, as AMC brings viewers nearly 10 straight hours of the guy with the most bankable squint in Hollywood, in the role that proved he wasn't just a cowboy anymore. As San Francisco cop Harry Callahan, Clint took guff from no one, least of all some bad guys screaming about their rights. The Clintfest kicks off at 3:30 p.m. with Don Siegel's 1971 Dirty Harry, where Eastwood gets to play the archetypal vigilante cop, daring bad guys to take a chance on how many rounds he has left in his gun. A trio of muy macho sequels follows: Ted Post's 1973 Magnum Force at 5:30 p.m., James Fargo's 1976 The Enforcer at 8 and Eastwood directing himself in 1983's Sudden Impact (which was also the last film he would make with girlfriend Sondra Locke, who would later file a palimony suit against him)

WASHINGTON -- Unprecedented international cooperation and the expulsion of more than 100 Iraqi diplomats around the world have prevented Saddam Hussein from delivering on his threat to wage a campaign of terror against the United States and its allies, U.S. officials believe.The expulsion of the diplomats and Iraqi terrorist agents "clearly thwarted his operational capabilities," said one U.S. official. "We've been successful in getting the [suspect] Iraqis expelled, as well as general bad guys."

In the summer-wonderful world of a 6-year-old Manchester artist, sketchbooks are made to draw bad guys and good guys and create superheroes to keep the universe safe.Noah Boyle flashed an infectious, impish smile and explained to a visitor recently how "Electric Man," his superhero creation, came to adorn a children's easy-peel sticker and coloring book published in April by Tennessee-based Dalmatian Press."It's fun to pretend and invent superheroes," he said, paging through dozens of his creations carefully crafted with multicolored Crayola washable markers.

"Journey of Hope"*** A Turkish family tries to make it to Switzerland.CAST: Necmettin Cobanoglu, Nur SurerDIRECTOR: Xavier KollerRATING: No rating.RUNNING TIME: 110 minutes JOURNEY of Hope," winner of the Academy Award for best foreign language film of 1990, is, despite its title, a tale of wearing desperation. A story of hope and ultimate disillusionment, it is an absolute downer.Made in Turkey, Italy and Switzerland by Xavier Koller, "Journey of Hope" begins in Turkey, where a father of seven decides to migrate to Switzerland with his wife and one of his sons, a boy of about 10.They meet an unusual number of good people.

In Harford County, the sheriff's office typically turns down half the applicants who apply for jobs because of previous drug use. What changes, if any, should the sheriff's office consider in its policy on previous drug use? Here are readers' views: Those who are wiser may be better police I think that turning down applicants because of previous drug use is wrong. Those that have been through and overcome their addictions can actually say, I know what you're going through, and mean it. They are more streetwise and can see things from another prospective.

Julian L. "Jack" Lapides, the joking gadfly of the state Senate, filed as a candidate for Baltimore City comptroller yesterday, promising to pursue "bad guys" who waste tax money and to restore public trust in a job tarnished by Jacqueline F. McLean's corruption conviction."

Midway's new Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy brings some amazing innovation to the increasingly formulaic third-person shooter genre. If the developers had been a little bolder, this could have been a masterpiece, but Psi-Ops is pretty cool nonetheless. Psi-Ops puts you in the boots of a standard futuristic American warrior but with a twist: You're as comfortable with telekinesis as you are with a machine gun. You can use your mind to lift enemies off the ground, spin them in the air and toss them against crates and walls.