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...finger-pointing began even before al-Megrahi was released. Scotland may have had jurisdiction over the case, but British opposition politicians blamed Gordon Brown's government for its handling of the case. Victims' families and lawyers say they suspect that officials, eager to help British companies win multibillion-dollar energy and defense contracts, cut a backroom deal in exchange for al-Megrahi's freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spotlight: The Lockerbie Bomber | 9/7/2009 | See Source »

Have you always had a penchant for journalism? What about photography or web design? Want to help run a million-dollar business...

Author: By Nathan C. Strauss | Title: Like What You See? | 9/7/2009 | See Source »

...evil criminal mastermind will try to smuggle relics out of the library, forcing the BSA and CSA to unite in order to undermine this plot and save face. Someone will play "Make it Rain" and dollar bills will fall everywhere...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi | Title: "Rush Hour 4: Bring on the Funk" | 9/5/2009 | See Source »

...from 2007's figure, according to the Bogotá-based human-rights group Codhes (the Spanish acronym for the Human Rights and Displacement Office). Colombian officials, in turn, put the number of displaced at 294,000 for just the first six months of last year. "It's the million-dollar question," Marie-Helene Verney, spokeswoman for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Colombia, says of the perplexing trend. "Something is going on." (See pictures of Colombia's notorious guerrilla army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: If Colombia Is Winning Its War, Why the Fleeing? | 9/1/2009 | See Source »

...Olympic-sized swimming pools was dumped onto nearby homes and in tributaries of the Tennessee River. The accident killed millions of fish, destroyed 300 acres of property, and badly contaminated local water sources. The Tennessee Valley Authority estimates that the spill will require a multi-year, billion-dollar cleanup effort...

Author: By Anthony P. Dedousis | Title: Old King Coal | 8/31/2009 | See Source »

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