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Researchers who examined the death certificates and medical records found that 90% of the bullets fired in the killings landed above the waist. 197 were fired into the back, 395 hit the chest area and 229 hit the head. Most shockingly, 152 bullets were fired into the base of the skull, indicative of summary execution. "The intention was not to stop people fleeing, the intention was to kill," says Henrique Carlos Goncalves, the president of the São Paulo Regional Council of Medicine, the body that examined the death certificates. "It was a massacre." (See pictures of a papal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brazil, Accusations of a Police Massacre | 5/19/2009 | See Source »

...Chernobyl, an ostentatious talent show in which gaudiness and sex appeal have more currency than musical ability. During the May 16 final, watched by more than 100 million people worldwide, contestants once again called upon their decidedly nonmusical charms: the Greek entry ripped his shirt to expose a waxed chest, while the Albanian entry wore a pink tutu and stood on a wind machine. But in the end, Alexander Rybak, a boyish fiddle player from Norway, stormed to victory because he had the best song - and he didn't even have to flash anyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How the West Won: Norway Takes the Crown at Eurovision | 5/18/2009 | See Source »

Jeno Koka's killers shot him in the chest moments after he had bid good night to his wife Eva and stepped from his house on his way to a shift at the nearby pharmaceutical factory where he worked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Murder Mystery: Who's Killing Hungary's Gypsies? | 5/1/2009 | See Source »

...death in Texas, but all 50 have already requested their portion of the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) of antiviral medications, according to the CDC. (The SNS, maintained jointly by the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Health and Human Services, is the nation's emergency medicine chest, containing critical drugs and medical equipment to be used in a public-health emergency.) Although the stockpiled antiviral drugs can treat existing cases of flu, a vaccine is the only way to protect people who are uninfected and halt further spread of the virus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Fast Could a Swine Flu Vaccine Be Produced? | 4/29/2009 | See Source »

...from the people I'm seeing today - the voters." Davis says he did not expect support from the state's Democratic establishment - and that helped him decide to announce his candidacy early. He needs as much time as possible to build a campaign apparatus. He certainly has a war chest to start building that operation: nearly $1.1 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Alabama Spark a Democratic Revival in the South? | 4/28/2009 | See Source »

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