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...offense. Hernandez recommends spray painting or etching copper pipes for identity purposes. Meanwhile, companies like American Scrap Metal in Dallas check photo IDs and turn away scrap that looks too new. Birmingham's Standard Heating & Air Conditioning Co. and Dalco are even starting to attach alarms to AC units. That may sound drastic, until you realize that in the South air conditioners are a life or death issue. "Without air conditioning, nobody would live in this hell hole," said Points...
...RELEGATED. Juventus, Lazio and Fiorentina, three top Italian football clubs, to the second division for their part in a national match-fixing scandal; in Rome. Turin's Juventus was also stripped of its last two championship titles, and had 30 points deducted for the forthcoming season. Rival AC Milan, also implicated in the scandal, will remain in the first division, but faces a 15-point handicap and expulsion from Europe's lucrative Champions League competition. All four clubs are expected to appeal...
Around midnight on April 1, a small group of Black Hawk helicopters and fearsome AC-130 gunships came in low over Nasiriyah's dark skyline. Army Rangers and Marines moved quietly into place, encircling the hospital's walls. Other Marines rolled into Nasiriyah in tanks and personnel carriers in a noisy diversion, to draw attention, to draw fire...
...RESIGNED. Franco Carraro, 66, Italian football federation president, amid a growing match-fixing scandal; in Rome. Carraro is under investigation along with some 40 other officials and referees and four Serie A football clubs, including Juventus and AC Milan. On May 4, Italian newspapers sparked the scandal by publishing telephone taps of Juventus director Luciano Moggi discussing referee assignments for club matches with a refereeing official. Juventus's board of directors, including Moggi, resigned en masse last week...
...Johnny Mercer, Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954 informs us, was "the lyricist for more popular songs than any other songwriter in history." In the mid-'40s, Mercer, a founder of Capitol Records, also had three No. 1 hits as a vocalist: "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive," "Candy" and "On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe" - a record, I believe, for a classic pop songwriter. The Savannah native with the gap-toothed smile was the author or co-author of more than 1,000 songs, which scaled the charts for 30 years, in the prime of the Great...