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A routine case: Manuel was an office worker, 31 years old, a little overweight but in otherwise good shape. The two half-inch-long incisions I made on his knee doing arthroscopic surgery had not healed when he came to my office a week afterward to get his stitches out...
Good timing. Changes to Portugal's secrecy laws over the weekend give suspects and third parties - who were previously not allowed to know the details of a police investigation - greater access to case files, meaning the McCanns' legal team could get hold of the 4,000-page police file on...
Nestor and Cristina Kirchner, President and First Lady-Senator of Argentina, should love Venezuela's Hugo Chavez unequivocally. After all, Chavez is using Venezuela's petroleum riches to shore up Argentina's struggling economy, buying $1 billion of the country's bonds and investing $400 million in a natural gas...
If Hall was fated to die, one dead man refused to stay that way. Late in the day, as the Camp 4 climbers got set to trek down, they noticed what appeared to be an apparition: trudging toward them, his parka open, his mittens missing, his arms held before him...
"Nobody likes to talk about it. It's politically uncool - putting a human body out and letting it decompose - but unfortunately it is a necessary artifact of human society," Byrd says. Once the cadaver has been exposed to open air, the bones picked clean by wildlife and insects, the skeletal...