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Naturally, when Picower's wife found him at the bottom of the pool at their Palm Beach, Fla., home on Oct. 25, speculation about what had happened ran wild. But the county medical examiner quickly ruled that Picower had drowned after suffering a heart attack. His death may ensure that this chapter of the Madoff affair will remain veiled in mystery...
...Sunni rebel group claimed responsibility for the meticulously planned twin suicide bombings on Oct. 25 that killed more than 155 people, including 30 children, just outside Baghdad's Green Zone. The attack--Iraq's deadliest since April 2007--circumvented the stringent security measures in the city's heavily protected core and heightened fears that the country's fledgling government may not be ready for January's parliamentary elections and the withdrawal of U.S. troops next year. The bombings came two months after blasts near the Foreign and Finance ministries left 100 people dead...
...prairie pastures with wide streets in bucolic neighborhoods like Sunflower Estates and Bridgewood. But on a glorious, cloudless fall day, the flags at the home-sales center nearby were at half-staff in honor of the 13 fallen at Fort Hood, victims of a gunman whose deadly attack was stopped thanks to a petite, long-haired, blond mom from the neighborhood...
...Sergeant Kimberly Munley, 34, a civilian Department of Defense police officer at the base, is credited with stopping the firing rampage of Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan at the Soldier Readiness Center within a few minutes after he launched his attack. The center is a quick five-minute drive from Munley's home, past the new strip centers and the high school football field along wide Cross Creek Boulevard, but a world away from the horrors inflicted in one of the worst incidents of soldier-on-soldier violence in U.S. Army history. (Read "Stresses at Fort Hood Were Likely Intense...
...Taras Berezovets, an adviser to Tymoshenko, tells TIME that Yushchenko and the other presidential candidates are using the swine-flu epidemic as an opportunity to attack the Prime Minister. "The media are to blame for the panic. From the beginning, the government has told people to remain calm and follow some simple rules," he says. (See pictures of thermal scanners hunting for swine...