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IDENTIFIED. Mark Goudeau, 42, former construction worker, as the alleged "Baseline Killer" who terrorized the Phoenix, Ariz., area with a string of assaults and shootings over 10 months starting in the summer of 2005; by police who cited DNA and ballistics evidence linking Goudeau, in custody since September on related sexual-assault charges, to the murders; in Phoenix. Named for the street on which the early attacks took place, the murderer left eight women and one man dead. When formally charged, Goudeau, who says he is innocent, could face 71 criminal counts, including nine of first-degree murder...
Hospital executives are responding to the assault of specialists by building and aggressively marketing profitable "service lines," like cancer, heart and brain centers. They're snapping up $1.4 million computed tomography (CT) scanners, which produce palpably detailed, 3-D pictures of bones and organs, and $2.2 million "high field" MRI machines that can watch the brain at work. The inflationary dynamic spawned by this expansion of health-care capacity exposes flaws in the payment system that sustains U.S. health care. Those flaws partly explain why Americans spend $2 trillion, or 16% of their GDP, for medical care, an outlay that...
...Although the Daily Trojan is not totally fiscally independent, its daily production has historically been student-run. Regardless of the formal level of independence of the paper, a meddling administration undermines the educational value of student journalism. Interventions like this assault the core values of student newspapers—objectivity and comprehensive coverage. They compromise journalistic integrity and tarnish the development of the next generation of journalists...
...Hilali, was justly slapped down by the community after he described women who did not wear the hijab (headdress) as "uncovered meat." In a Ramadan sermon in September, the mufti also told his flock that women, by the way they dress and act, were to blame for sexual assault. When the comments were reported in late October by the Australian newspaper, the nation's leaders condemned Hilali. After he apologized, claiming his words were taken out of context, Hilali fell into the arms of his physicians. He rode out the storm behind a floral wall his supporters had laid...
...hardware that they are willing to camp out on the pavement or even take a bullet for the chance to own one. If you don’t believe me, just look to the four people in Kentucky who were actually shot in a drive-by BB gun assault while waiting in line outside their local Best...