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...attorney general, draws a gun. Infante knocks him down, the man's head hits the curb and blood gushes out. A newspaper headline screams: "Pedro Montaño Kills Attorney General's Son." Violent conflicts of class and devotion, duty and death are established and brought to a boil in this scene -which consumes exactly 38 secs. of screen time. It makes that YouTube synopsis of The Sopranos seem logy by comparison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Learning Pedro Infante | 4/15/2007 | See Source »

...decision to confiscate guns from residents immediately following the natural disaster, and she said the New Orleans government demonstrated that it was “profoundly incompetent” through its response. “The violations of due process are so egregious that it should make your blood boil,” Froman said to the audience of just over 30 people. Froman, who is the second female president of the NRA, noted that the NRA filed suit against Nagin and was able to secure an injunction stopping the confiscations. “[These people] hadn?...

Author: By Kevin Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: NRA Chief: Big Easy Hard on Guns | 4/6/2007 | See Source »

Rendering plants, which boil down dead animal carcasses from slaughterhouses into fats and proteins, sell cheap material that often ends up in pet food. The "meat" in your cat's kibbles could be any kind: there's no law against even using rendered material from cats and dogs in pet food. Plants can mix in anything from road kill to supermarket deli meats, and investigations by KMOV-TV in St. Louis and the Los Angeles Times have suggested that pets killed in animal shelters just might make it into the slop. The Pet Food Institute, whose members create most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unraveling the Pet-Food Mystery | 4/5/2007 | See Source »

...hardly been a picnic though. In January 2005 Veolia issued a boil-water advisory after allowing some subpar water into the system, and came under fierce local criticism for playing fast and loose with public safety. Hewitt insists that the water quality always met EPA standards and that the incident could as easily have happened in a municipally run facility. "We went into this deal with our eyes open, knowing we'd have better and worse years. This is a long-term investment. The Europeans are very patient. And we're on target for success over the 20-year period...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Thirst for Growth | 3/16/2007 | See Source »

...when he was gunned down driving along a city street hours after his underachieving team was eliminated from the National Football League playoffs. No one has been arrested, but police hint that the slaying may be gang related, spotlighting a problem that has been at a slow boil for years. Then, on Feb. 24, another Broncos player, Damien Nash, collapsed and died. More grisly but no less shocking was the death that same day of a Denver Zoo employee, Ashlee Pfaff, 27, who was mauled by a jaguar. "It has just been relentless," says Carey Zier, a Denver contractor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Low Down in Mile High | 3/1/2007 | See Source »

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