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...This Mob war is now endemic to Naples." The evidence is everywhere. On a recent police patrol, Naples commander Stefano Valletta pointed out scenes of violence: a double homicide in the parking lot of a local housing project, the slaying of a street thug outside a low-rise apartment complex, and just down the road, three corpses wrapped in cellophane inside a car - "left there like presents," says Valletta. When a Camorra war is on, the factions "start counting the dead, and looking for anyone to kill from the other side - brothers, cousins, girlfriends. It's an escalation that...
...graphic novel, The Three Paradoxes, to be published in June by Fantagraphics Books, poses questions like: How do parents influence our lives? Can people change? Employing multiple narrative threads yet maintaining a clear story through varying color schemes and drawing styles, Hornschemeier's work demonstrates that comics can address complex ideas while also telling an emotional, entertaining tale. If other comics are easy chairs, his work offers the pleasure, and the pain, of reclining on a psychiatrist's couch...
...more than 100 secret units, intelligence programs and communications networks that the Pentagon has set up to fight terrorists. Many have exotic designations like Aztec Silence and Island Sun. "When you put together all these code names, it shows there's something going on out there and it's complex," says Arkin...
...meet regularly on Fridays—don’t remember, think or write as effectively in the morning as they do later on in the day. It’s not merely an inconvenience for late-nighters—as the squinty-eyed superiority complex of the early risers would undoubtedly claim. Morning people get a big advantage over the rest of us when it comes to final exams, which often determine student grades. There’s an innate difference that is being ignored, and it’s actively harming students’ academic performance...
DIED. DENNIS FLANAGAN, 85, visionary editor of Scientific American who transformed it from a prestigious but little-read journal into an influential mainstream magazine with a circulation of 600,000 and set a model for making complex scientific ideas understandable to all; of prostate cancer; in New York City...