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Capuano said his loyalty was first to the residents of his 8th Congressional district, then to the state of Massachusetts, then to America and finally to the world...
...grand jury prefers the latter explanation. Barton was indicted Wednesday on arson charges; Colorado authorities say she deliberately started a wildfire southwest of Denver on June 8th. The blaze, the largest in Colorado history, has ravaged 135,000 acres of parched land, destroying 25 houses and driving nearly 8,000 people from their homes...
...news of much of this week and last has been dominated by images of the eastern half of Colorado going up in flames. But the even more compelling story is that of Barton. When the fires began June 8th, the 38-year-old mother of two was first on the scene. She initially told investigators the fires were burning when she arrived; under continued questioning, she broke down and said she had accidentally started the fire when she burned a letter from her estranged husband. Prosecutors say it was no accident; according to them, Barton set the fire deliberately...
...outcome began to look as painful and inevitable as that of Ali vs. Holmes in 1980. Lewis used Tyson's increasingly stationary head as a speed bag for his jab and then, via uppercuts and right crosses, as a heavy bag. When Tyson went down hard in the 8th round it was a formality. He was a spent case long before...
...ritual objects, such as an incense burner with a duckbill handle, and a ladle topped by a vulture's head. The discovery of gold Byzantine coins and crosses in the area may indicate the presence of a Christian monastery, proof that Herakleion was still inhabited as late as the 8th century A.D. Goddio's latest topographical study indicates that Herakleion was an ancient version of Venice, a city where canals were as prevalent as roads. If Goddio seems like a wizard pulling off astonishing tricks, he has a magician's secret: a nuclear resonance magnetometer, a torpedo-shaped super-sensing...