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...havens. At 6:20 p.m., Sopehia White, 31, entered the facility and calmly made her way to the third-floor nursery where six infants lay. Drawing a .38-cal. revolver, White wildly fired six shots at nurse Elizabeth Staten, striking her in the abdomen and hand. The wounded Staten fled down a stairwell to the first-floor emergency room, with White in pursuit. "She caught up with Liz at the chart desk and pistol-whipped her. Then she shot her," says veteran nurse Joan Black, 62, who was in the triage area at the time. "She said...
...Georgian army officer and grandson of a czarist general, Shalikashvili was born in Warsaw and at the end of World War II fled Poland with his family in a cattle car, just ahead of the Soviet army. After migrating to the U.S. and teaching himself English by watching John Wayne movies, he joined the Army and steadily rose through the ranks. A virtually unpronounceable surname (shah-lee-kash-VEE-lee) and a reputation for passing on to subordinates the credit that more flamboyant officers reserve for themselves have earned him the diminutive "General Shali." He made his first international impact...
...operations. "He was proud of his expertise. He was very much in love with himself." Last year the feds and local police busted Wills' six- man, 14,000-sq.-ft. "chop shop" set in an industrial park in Bensalem, Pennsylvania. But, while all his cohorts were prosecuted, Wills fled after his arrest -- and remains at large. What has emerged of his saga illustrates how easy and lucrative it is to make a living abducting and dismembering automobiles in America...
...places that were supposed to be off limits. In big cities, soaked with drugs and guns, residents make certain concessions to safety. They learn what streets to avoid at night, what neighborhoods to avoid at all times, what activities to avoid at all costs. But now the generation that fled the cities to escape violent crime finds that crime commutes...
Freedom -- of sorts. Freedom from beatings by a drunken father. Freedom from fighting with seven siblings for a crust of bread. Freedom to hope. Cristiano, now 16, fled the abuse and violence of his home at 6. Surely the streets of glamorous, wealthy Rio de Janeiro offered a better life than the wretched slum west of the city where he was born...