Word: america
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King and Brewer joined a local prison chapter of a gang called the Confederate Knights of America, a small North Carolina-based Klan faction that recruited heavily from biker groups and prison inmates in the early 1990s. He began getting tattoos that would cover 65% of his body. His body art was a litany of racist images, including Nazi SS lightning bolts, Klan emblems and a black man lynched from a tree. One witness, psychiatrist Dr. Edward Gripon, suggested the tattoos may have been a way to make the 5-ft. 7-in., 165-lb. King look forbidding to threatening...
During his time in jail, prosecutors say, King was making plans to form a Jasper chapter of the Confederate Knights of America, to be called the Texas Rebel Soldiers. Brewer was King's first recruit, the government says, and Berry was the second. William Matthew Hoover, a fellow inmate of King's and an Aryan Brotherhood member, testified that King may have been planning an initiation ritual for his new gang that included kidnapping a black man, driving him to the woods and killing him. "They have to take someone out," Hoover testified. "Blood in, blood out. You have...
Whatever happens to Mylan, America's generic-drug industry is likely to emerge much stronger from the current turmoil. Even with delays, brand-name drugs that now account for sales of more than $40 billion a year could become available in generic form by 2008. Based on current pricing, consumers might save an additional $16 billion. And that's not too hard to swallow...
...always. This season 32 people have been killed by avalanches in North America, and the season still has two months to go. Recently, at Washington's Mount Baker, a skier (who was outside the area's boundary) and a snowboarder were killed by a thunderous 15-ft. wall of snow moving at 200 m.p.h. In Canada the body of Michel Trudeau, son of the former Canadian Prime Minister, lies at the bottom of a lake in British Columbia, carried there by an early-season slide. "The more I know about avalanches, the more scared I am," says Wendy Fisher...
...concluding they can't run. Most cultures, at least of the complex, "civilized" variety, have penalized women who stray or have taken sadistic measures to prevent that from happening in the first place, from raping or killing them to labeling them "cheap." In parts of Latin America and the Middle East, "honor killings" of wayward daughters or sisters are common and treated indulgently by the courts. In some African countries, young women have their clitorises excised to dull their sexual appetite. If women are the innately more monogamous sex, why the widespread and fanatic efforts to get them to keep...