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...traffickers for years, the National Revolutionary Party (PAN) adopted a strict approach against drug trafficking and related crime shortly after it came to power in 2000. In reaction to new policies, particularly President Felipe Calderon’s two-year-old crackdown on drug trafficking violence, noncombatant deaths??numbered at 3,000 since January 2008—have risen significantly...

Author: By Sabrina G. Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mexico's Newest Luxury Item | 1/4/2009 | See Source »

...government’s practice of chemically inducing abortions through the use of a drug Rivanol, which causes fetuses to come out dead or die within hours of birth. These abortions were systematically performed in the event of a high risk pregnancy to reduce the number of early neonatal deaths??when an infant dies within seven days of birth—which is the statistic employed in calculating the infant mortality rate. Dr. Biscet has been denied voice and subjected to inhumane prison conditions for denouncing this practice...

Author: By Daniel Balmori and Andrew Velo-arias | Title: Castro: A Legacy of Myths | 2/28/2008 | See Source »

...first DUI. The New York Times implies that the devices are responsible for N.M.’s 11.3 percent drop in alcohol-related fatalities last year, despite noting that “New Mexico was not the only state to record a decline in alcohol-related motoring deaths?? and that other states “showed even bigger drops.” Furthermore, the rule did not take effect until June 2005, midway through the year in which it supposedly cut the fatality rate...

Author: By Piotr C. Brzezinski | Title: Drunk Until Proven Innocent | 11/21/2006 | See Source »

...number of confirmed Lebanese deaths??including members of the Lebanese army and Hezbollah guerrillas—is 437, according to the Associated Press, while 52 Israelis have been killed in the conflict...

Author: By Katherine M. Gray, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MIT Protest Targets Israel | 7/28/2006 | See Source »

Glickman said he is particularly concerned about the recent outbreak of listeria in deli meat—which has led to hospitalizations, miscarriages and deaths??because the bacteria is not removed by proper cooking, as most consumers do not cook the ready-to-eat products being recalled...

Author: By Jaquelyn M. Scharnick, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: With Tainted Turkey, Recalls Hit Harvard | 11/5/2002 | See Source »

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