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...installing a barrier on the Golden Gate Bridge, with various proposals made and rejected going as far back as 1970. But momentum has built in the last year, fueled in part by a documentary by filmmaker Eric Steel, who trained his cameras on the bridge for most of the daylight hours in 2004 - not to chronicle a day in the life of the bridge, as he had originally told officials, but to make a film about suicide...
...Goyeneche, president of the commission, is that witnesses and victims who initially agree to cooperate eventually change their mind. They fear for their lives because they know most criminals arrested in New Orleans end up back on the street. In 2004, Keisha Robinson, 29, was gunned down in broad daylight in front of her house shortly after she had testified before a grand jury investigating her younger brother's killing. Police can't be sure why she was attacked, since they never arrested anyone for her murder. But it was perceived by many as a revenge killing. Two months before...
...Thursday, 18-year-old Hans Van Themsche donned a long black leather coat, purchased a hunting rifle, and then, in broad daylight, started stalking identifiable foreigners in Belgium's second city. First, he shot and wounded a woman of Turkish descent who had been sitting on a public bench, reading a book. Then Van Themsche killed a pregnant Malian babysitter and the native Belgian two-year-old for whom she was caring. His hunt for further victims was stopped only when a police officer shot him in the stomach after he refused to drop his weapon...
...Bj?rn Hoen, 37, Petter Rosenvinge, 38, and Petter Tharaldsen, 34, to jail terms ranging from four to eight years, for involvement in the theft of Edvard Munch's masterpieces The Scream and Madonna, which are still missing; in Oslo. The paintings were snatched by two masked gunmen during a daylight raid on the Munch Museum in Oslo in 2004. Hoen and Tharaldsen have been ordered to pay $122 million in compensation to the city of Oslo...
...there's so much interest in a study in the current issue of the journal Sleep. Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School set out to test melatonin's effects and found that the supplements can indeed be a potent sleep aid--but only during daylight hours...