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...were unconscious. we stripped them, and when the flight commander gave the order, we opened the door and threw them out, naked, one by one. That is the story, and nobody can deny it." With these words, former Argentine navy Captain Adolfo Francisco Scilingo, 48, spilled one of the dirtiest secrets of the "dirty war" that raged in his country from the mid-1970s through the early '80s. Human-rights workers and relatives of at least 9,000 Argentines who "disappeared" under military rule have long contended that the missing were systematically murdered by troops acting on orders from...
...vital to their country's future -- and actually good for the environment as a whole. They say it will prevent the periodic flooding that has claimed 500,000 lives in this century. More important, its production of clean hydroelectric power will reduce China's reliance on coal, the dirtiest of all fossil fuels, which now supplies 75% of the country's energy needs. The burning of coal has cast a pall of pollution over major Chinese cities and helped make pulmonary disease the nation's leading cause of death...
Granted, Brown is a team that has been called by some "one of the dirtiest in the league...
...knocked her off balance in the 500-m short-track speed-skating final, Chinese silver medalist Zhang Yanmei refused to pose with Turner at the podium and flung her bouquet to the ground. As China lodged a protest, Canadian Nathalie Lambert sympathized, calling Cathy Turner "the dirtiest skater." On Saturday, Turner was disqualified from the 1,000-m for illegally cutting off another competitor. Said Turner: "The judges were just waiting...
Because the dirtiest little secret of sportswriting is this: say interesting things, and you will get in the paper. Correctly. Guaranteed...