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...ALEXIA SALVATIERRA, quoting a 2nd century Christian theologian to explain why activist Elvira Arellano's Aug. 20 deportation to Tijuana would inspire a renewed fight for immigration reform. Arellano had found sanctuary in a Chicago church for a year in defiance of a deportation order...
Hurricane Dean crashed into Mexico on Aug. 21 with winds up to 168 m.p.h., making it the first Category 5 storm to hit land since 1992. It eventually slackened, but as hurricane risks increase, weather watchers at the National Hurricane Center (NHC) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are trying to sharpen their vigil on storms. Here...
...Aug. 14 a computer hacker named Virgil Griffith unleashed a clever little program onto the Internet that he dubbed WikiScanner. It's a simple application that trolls through the records of Wikipedia, the publicly editable Web-based encyclopedia, and checks on who is making changes to which entries. Sometimes it's people who shouldn't be. For example, WikiScanner turned up evidence that somebody from Wal-Mart had punched up Wal-Mart's Wikipedia entry. Bad retail giant...
...Vick's dogs were not so lucky. On Aug. 20 he agreed to plead guilty to federal charges stemming from his involvement in the blood sport of dogfighting. There are additional allegations that he shot, hanged and electrocuted dogs that lost. He faces prison, the loss of millions and maybe even the end of his career...
...those reasons, the general has not yet given up on his Plan A for survival: imposing martial law. He came within a whisker of invoking emergency powers on Aug. 9; it took two phone calls from U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to talk him down. Martial law would plunge Pakistan into political turmoil, further alienate the moderates and hurt U.S. interests in the region...