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...Year’s Day in Oakland, a bullet seared through the back of unarmed 22-year-old Oscar Grant III, point-blank out of the barrel of an officer sworn to serve and protect. Mr. Grant died instantly, prostrate in the universal “I Surrender” position, the officer’s knee smashing his neck into cement. Police supporters claim that Grant was harassing another train passenger. Supposedly the officer who fired the shot thought he was using a taser...
...fewer than five at a time.) He also must leave Paris in rubble and his old friendships in shambles. Busting into the home of two such friends, a French police chief and his wife, Bryan shoots the woman in the arm, then threatens to finish her off with a bullet between the eyes unless the policeman does his bidding...
...Mysore. The fuel emits negligible greenhouse gases, and the trees can capture four tons of carbon dioxide per acre (which might make growers eligible for carbon credits on the global market). Says Ron Pernick, co-founder of the alternative-energy research firm Clean Edge: "Jatropha isn't a silver bullet, but it looks very promising...
Interviews with Abed Rabu's wife Kauthar, his mother-in-law and three neighbors, including Saad Abed Rabu and Khadra Abed Rabu (from the same clan), matched his account of the shootings, and certainly the family's grief and anger appear genuine. Two of the daughters died of bullet wounds, Palestinian doctors say, while the third, Samar, was evacuated from Shifa Hospital by the Red Crescent through Egypt and airlifted to a Belgian hospital, where she lies paralyzed. "Samar still doesn't know that her two sisters died," says Abed Rabu. "We don't want to shock her while...
...executive Beaudine. Instead, rely on your "Who network," meaning your community of true friends--and their friends--to get you where you want to go, both professionally and personally. But don't be so sure success is the answer, he cautions: "If money, power and fame were the magic bullet in life, then Elvis Presley would've been the most deliriously happy, contented person on the planet...