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...European Cup tournament quarter-final match in April. The goal: have a player simulate an open wound in order to exploit an exemption to substitution rules that allows players who've already left the game to return in place of those too bloodied to continue. In the Harlequins' case, that meant getting winger Tom Williams to secretly bite into a synthetic blood capsule, then sending him off as "injured" just in time to bring a place-kicking specialist back on to take a potentially game-winning penalty kick. (See pictures of the last Rugby World...
...wanted the 66-year-old Billings "whacked" and asked him to do the job. (Gonzalez claims he refused - although he boasted to police, without offering details, that he's taken part in other murders for hire.) Morgan tells TIME he expects to make more arrests soon in a homicide case that's become shocking and sordid enough to recall Truman Capote's In Cold Blood - and one that has orphaned the Billings' 17 children, 13 of them adopted and most with disabilities like Down Syndrome. "We'd all prefer it if this were a group of losers visiting a random...
...case documents do suggest the Billings murders were a "hit." Billings, for example, was shot six times with a 9-mm handgun - once in the back of each leg, twice in the face and twice in the 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...
...case could easily be made that state fairs remain the worst place to find healthy food but there is general agreement that Iowa's famous fair - held for 11 days in mid-August - is offering a few more nutritious options, including more foods cooked in trans fat free oil. The trick is finding the stuff - and getting more fairgoers to eat it. The lousy economy also may not be helping. "It's a growing trend that as consumers are looking for and demanding more options that are lower in calories and fat, smaller portions, more healthful, the vendors are responding...
...with money and power and giving Gaddafi what he wants. My feelings, as a victim, apparently count for nothing." - Susan Cohen, whose only child, Theodora, was one of a group of Syracuse University students on Pan Am flight 103, on the case's political overtones (New York Times...