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...year-old. "Then, after a while, I couldn't feel her moving anymore." Ten hours later, Li delivered the girl she had intended to name Shuang (Bright). The baby was dead. To be absolutely sure, says Li, the officials--from the Linyi region, where she lives, in China's eastern Shandong province--dunked the infant's body for several minutes in a bucket of water beside the bed. All she could think about on that day last spring, recalls Li, was how she would hire a gang of thugs to take revenge on the people who killed her baby because...
...bought the 540,000-sq-m island of Petalas nearby. Much of the growing enthusiasm stems from changes to Greek property laws in 2003 that allow foreigners to buy islands for as little as $670,000. Is there a catch? Island shopping could prove a tad risky in the eastern Aegean, because some outcrops are contested by Greece's longtime rival Turkey. And all buyers need sales approval from the Greek Agriculture, Merchant Marine, Defense and Culture Ministries. But if Greece and Turkey are at loggerheads over these Aegean gems, they must be worth the bureaucratic hassle...
...with America (which happens to be the only country in the world to ever use nuclear weapons)? How about Pakistan and its infamous Abdul Qadeer Khan? Are they exempt from this writer’s wrath because they are allies in the U.S.’s Middle Eastern adventures? Anyone whose true concern is the existence of nuclear weapons cannot credibly fail to mention Israel, nor Pakistan...
Joyce Martin, 48, fears her home in eastern New Orleans has been completely engulfed by water. Martin has been on a harrowing journey, after fleeing her home in the storm’s path, she briefly stopped at the congested convention center, then dropped by a shelter, and later, lived at an army barracks with her family. A religious charity offered her a one-way ticket out, free of charge—she chose Los Angeles, the furthest she’s ever traveled...
AirTran, based in Orlando, Fla., may stand to gain more from the looming industry restructuring, particularly a Delta bankruptcy, than any other carrier. For one thing, AirTran's bread-and-butter routes are in the eastern U.S.--where Delta and others will probably trim the number of flights and raise fares. Says Leonard: "We've been sitting here quietly for the past five years minding our own business and making money, but if three airlines pull down capacity as expected, that will be even better for AirTran...