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...back of the head, the kind of deliberate execution-style pattern often meant to send a message. One of the Billings' adopted special needs children, an autistic boy who was in the couple's bedroom where they were killed, told investigators via sign language that "bad men" burst in and told Billings, who briefly struggled with them, "You're gonna die." Melanie, 44, was shot twice in the chest and three times in the face...
...tear myself away. It wasn’t until the motion-activated lights in the stacks went off, leaving me reading about devil worship in a subterranean blackout that I panicked. Grabbing my belongings, I booked it up the stairs, too terrified to wait for the elevator. As I burst back onto the main floor, panting and sweating, I thanked God I was alive and not being forced to drink blood of small woodland creatures. I then spent the remainder of my afternoon reading this book cover-to-cover in the safe and well-lit periodicals room...
...Montanan who chairs the Senate Finance Committee and is a leading player in health-care reform). Montana was said to be ripe for conflict. Local unemployment and the ranks of the uninsured have risen dramatically in the past year as the bubble of the once booming construction market burst, sinking many resort jobs along with building trades and services. (See the top 10 health-care-reform players...
...opportunity to raise cash and build support networks in one of China's most populous provinces. But much of the donations collected over the past year ended up being funneled through local governments, according to a new study conducted by researchers from Beijing's Tsinghua University. And the initial burst of volunteer enthusiasm following the disaster has tapered dramatically. (See pictures of the aftermath of the Sichuan quake...
Investors are skittish because China's 7.1% second-quarter GDP expansion was due in part to a burst of bank lending, which was up 31% in May and 34% in June from year-ago levels. To date, cumulative loans outstanding have topped $1.1 trillion, far higher than the government's $735 billion target for the year. Most of the money is aimed at funding infrastructure projects under Beijing's two-year, $585 billion stimulus package. But according to government researchers, about $170 billion in bank loans were channeled into the stock market from January to May, which partly explains...