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Email Read Later  UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. -- ABC's "Lost" returns
tomorrow, and viewers will soon ask a new question: It's not,
"Where did the island go?" but "When did the island go?"  In
May's fourth-season finale, Jack (Matthew Fox) and five other
survivors of the crash of Oceanic Air flight 815 escaped the
island, which then disappeared in a flash of white light. In the
fifth-season premiere (9-11 p.m. tomorrow, WTAE) it quickly
becomes apparent that when Others leader Ben (Michael Emerson)
turned a wheel on the island, he didn't move the island through
space but through time.  "It is kind of a variable mine field to
do time travel," acknowledged executive producer Carlton Cuse,
"yet it also is incredibly exciting. What we didn't want to do
is have season five, the penultimate year of the show, just be a
stall."  This being "Lost," it's not just a time-travel show.
There are flashes forward to Jack and Ben attempting to return
to the island with