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...trail has been thin indeed. Police have fingerprints dating back to the 1950s, photos from 1959 and a computer-generated composite image of what he might look like now. But law-enforcement officials have no personal belongings or telephone recordings. In April 2003, police seized a man in downtown Palermo they were sure was Provenzano, but he turned out to be a doorman who resembled the composite image. And in November, police uncovered a ring of moles, including the assistant to a leading anti-Mafia prosecutor, who were feeding vital information to Mafia bosses, who passed it on to Provenzano...
...southeastern coast - from where officials had evacuated 1 million people - causing heavy damage but just two fatalities. Mean Streets BRAZIL A series of coordinated attacks in S?o Paulo left six homeless people dead and nine others hospitalized. All 15 were beaten with metal piping as they slept on downtown pavements. Police believe the attacks were carried out by a member of a hate group seeking to rid the streets of unwanted elements. The assaults evoked dark memories of a similar case in Rio de Janeiro in 1993 in which off-duty policemen shot dead eight street children...
...terrorists labeled photos depicting "views" of "downtown" and "midtown...
...this was Athens, not Baghdad, and it was the first overt signal that these next two weeks may really be about sport, not war. The raucous scene on Omonia Square in downtown Athens turned out to be simply a bunch of Iraqi soccer fans celebrating the surprise victory of their team in a preliminary round of the Olympic Games. They chanted for a while, joyous smiles disarming any who felt threatened, and after a few minutes, peacefully rambled off down a side street...
...firm, was tainted by an incident called the Great Molasses Flood of 1919. In January of that year, according to one vivid report, a ?a storage tank holding 2.5 million gallons of molasses exploded, creating a 15-foot tidal wave of sweetness that rushed at 35 mph through downtown Boston, leaving everything brown and sticky like a Mexican restaurant men?s room.... The Great Molasses Flood knocked down several buildings and an elevated train line and drowned 21 unfortunate (and evidently slow) people.? U.S. Industrial Alcohol eventually morphed into Chemstar, which (if I have it right) in the late 20th...