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...going under the snow.” But its true meaning has nothing to do with weather. According to a Russian friend, it’s an aphorism for being assassinated. Podsnezhnik was exactly what happened to renowned journalist Anna Politkovskaya two weeks ago. And with four bullet shots, Russia’s long road to Western-style public discourse took another step backward...
...Ramoneand Doc Holiday were still rookie cops when dead kids began appearing in D.C. gardens with a bullet hole in their temple and someone else's DNA where it should not be. Twenty years later, Ramone is a homicide detective and Holiday a limo driver (forced out on a morals charge by his ex-partner) when a new body turns up that fits the old M.O. Pelecanos has mellowed in his 14th novel--he's less gratuitously violent, more attuned to emotional subtext--but his prose has lost none of its street cred or bite. A ghetto bully...
...stop near Russell Field on Rindge Avenue and a series of rose and clear glass panels, covered by a corrugated tin roof, were put in place by minimalist sculptor Taylor Davis.Two weeks after it arrived in the neighborhood, the shelter was smashed, leaving marks the size of bullet holes in the cracked panels.In the early 1990s, Israeli artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles designed a large sculpture of a throne, accompanied by an image of a galaxy, in Daheny Park, once a dumpsite. In the past few years, her work has routinely been damaged. And a controversial mural on a traffic rotary...
...public-health specialist at the Seattle-based Rotavirus Vaccine Program, says the new vaccines have the potential to reduce deaths from rotavirus-related diarrhea to 200,000 a year. As with oral rehydration treatment and zinc supplements, though, distribution remains a hurdle. "The rotavirus vaccine is a potential silver bullet," Simpson says, "but you've still got to get it to them." The cost of a vaccine - about $60 a dose in countries such as Canada, France and South Korea - makes distribution difficult in poor parts of the world. Beatrice De Vos, Glaxo's director of worldwide medical affairs, says...
...Science Adam H. Cannon. “We really wanted a range of hot,” says one of the two IvyGate editors who both requested their names not be used because of the website’s controversial material. “We wanted silverfox, tweedy professor, bullet hot...We were hoping for more of a vote for the ‘sophisticated women.’ A ‘then she unbuttoned her tweedy regalia’ kind of thing.” What some nominees lacked in looks though, they compensated for in charm...