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Fugitives in Fun City SOUTH AFRICA On the lam? consider hiding out on the beaches of Cape Town - plenty of other fugitives do. Last week police in the South African metropolis arrested Americans Craig Michael Pritchert, 40, and Nova Ester Guthrie, 30, wanted by the fbi for a series of bank heists staged across the American West in the mid-'90s. U.S. officials say Guthrie and Pritchert spent much of the $500,000 they allegedly had stolen on day trading and traveling the world. The couple moved to Cape Town three years ago, where Guthrie...
...price of community in northern Uganda may be fatal. It is traditional at funerals in the rugged and remote north for mourners to show their solidarity by washing their hands in the same bowl of water, and that's what they did at the funeral in September of Ester Awete, who died of an unexplained fever. Health workers now believe it was that ritual cleansing that launched the current outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus. The hemorrhagic fever, which kills its victims within days of its onset, is transmitted via contact with any of the body fluids of an infected...