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...during the Marcos era. Arroyo herself called Edita Burgos to assure her that police would pursue the case aggressively. But from the start the investigation seemed to sputter. A week after the abduction, police told Burgos' mother that they'd found a corpse resembling Jonas. The man had been bound with a cord, strangled, shot twice in the skull, and dumped by a lonely country roadside. Edita Burgos insisted it was not her son. As part of their investigation, police also traced the license plate of the Toyota used by the kidnappers. They discovered that the plate had originally belonged...
...Nargis refugees. The country's top brass have not taken kindly to such private largesse, setting up roadblocks to deter relief convoys and hassling some monks who hand out mosquito nets or scoops of rice. An aid effort spearheaded by a comedian who made government misrule his fodder was bound to irk the junta...
...course, if Kobe gets in rhythm - and he is bound to at some point - Boston can't let him hit outside shots all day. So when the time comes to body up and force him to the basket, they need to send him to the baseline. In the triangle offense, Bryant often receives the ball on the wing. There, he has two choices - drive to the middle of the floor, or towards the corner, where he can turn and dribble to the basket along the baseline...
...thanks to the popularity of its compact Civic, also is amping up the production of hybrid vehicles in the next several months. Honda's new small gasoline/electric hybrid vehicle will have expected annual global sales of 200,000 units per year - approximately 100,000 of which are bound for the North American market starting next year...
...Consulting firms and financial-sector companies, which use aggressive recruiting tactics to woo students, won 39 percent of workforce-bound seniors, down from 47 percent last year. This year, students are gravitating in larger numbers to the arts, health services, media, and public service...