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Sixty-five years after 11 men were massacred in the central Italian village of Falzano Di Cortona, a German court convicted former Nazi soldier Josef Scheungraber of ordering the killings and sentenced him to life in prison. Scheungraber, 90, looked frail but alert as the verdict was read out in the Munich courthouse on Aug. 11, at the close of one of Germany's last Nazi war-crimes trials...
...patient who contracts the two illnesses simultaneously), a new, more lethal pandemic strain could emerge with a high rate of contagion. "I would say that is an unlikely scenario," Hay says. "But the point is you don't know what's going to happen. You have to remain alert to all possibilities...
...former head of Indonesia's state intelligence called the operation to hunt down Top "brilliant" but warned that the country must still be vigilant. "We still have to be alert because the brain behind all this is al-Qaeda and the hand moves when the brain tells it to," A.M. Hendropriyono told a reporter on Jakarta's MetroTV. "The brain is outside the country but the tentacles are here and they could regenerate." Still, he said the killing of Top was a victory in that Top's charisma and ability to recruit was as much a threat as his technical...
...Woodring is trying to change that. With help from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Woodring and several colleagues in ocean conservation are launching a two-ship expedition to the plastic vortex to explore it, take photographs and video and alert the public about the growing threat of ocean waste. "We need to make people realize what we are doing to our ocean," says Woodring...
...usually about the fine line of ethics in human relationships - does a newsman fake a tear in an interview? Does a production assistant lie about her boyfriend to her producer? - this one is about whether a man who says he needs love really deserves it. And (POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT) the big ethical question is whether a hardened comedian will get all teary when he sees a 10-year-old dressed as Grizabella and singing "Memory" from Cats...