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...life could serve not only as inspiration for Quentin Tarantino's next screenplay but also, perhaps, as a very grim morality tale for those who would do anything for a sleeker look. On July 4, a man supposedly named Antonio Flores Montes, thought to be in his early 40s, was found dead in his Mexico City hospital room after having undergone eight hours of cosmetic facial surgery and liposuction to his midriff. Bruised and punctured, Flores' corpse was flown by chartered plane the next day to the northern Mexican city of Culiacan, where it was laid out at the Capillas...
...body, the result of a fire inside her Yonkers, N.Y., apartment. Police say the blaze was set by her grandson, who had lived with her for most of the past two years and returned in April after a brief, rocky stay with his mother in San Antonio, Texas. Friends and neighbors say Malcolm, 12, wanted to live again with his mother Qubilah, who had been briefly in the news in 1995 when she faced charges for plotting to kill Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan...
...case was a rapprochement, at least in public, between Betty Shabazz and Farrakhan, who helped raise funds for the family's legal expenses. An arrangement with prosecutors allowed Qubilah to avoid trial but also required her to undergo psychiatric, drug and alcohol treatment. She moved to San Antonio and began working at a radio station partly owned by former Manhattan borough president Percy Sutton, a family friend who was once her father's lawyer...
...commit a crime for two years. Last month she passed that milestone and resigned from the radio job, hoping to open a shop selling the knitted wool clothing she loves to make. But though neighbors and co-workers describe her as pleasant and quiet, her life in San Antonio was still a mess. Five months after she arrived, police were called by neighbors who heard music from her apartment but noticed newspapers piling up untouched outside. A police report says Qubilah came to the door intoxicated, explained that she had been drinking for several days and asked to be returned...
...TIME board consists of former Fed vice chairman Alan Blinder, now at Princeton University; former Reagan adviser Martin Feldstein, now at Harvard University; Stephen Roach from Morgan Stanley; Allen Sinai from Primark Decision Economics; Edward Yardeni from Deutsche Morgan Grenfell; and J. Antonio Villamil from Washington Economics Group. An influential lot, for sure. Yet they can't measure whether computers are making people more productive. They can't agree on whether Americans are better or worse off than a few years ago. They don't know if the economy can grow faster and unemployment recede further without whipping up inflation...