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...These benefits have been visible to nearly everyone. Public parks in Switzerland are no longer infested with heroin abusers and urban centers are no longer full of scattered “shooting galleries,” which enable dangerous habits like needle-sharing and foster environments where criminals thrive. Thus, the intiative is win-win, both for durg users and non-users in Switzerland...
...Armond Walterson, again to Billy Neal and finally to Harry Lear, a lineman for Florida Bell. Each marriage ended in divorce. But that was the least of her troubles - of the trouble she made for herself and those she lived with. Her rap sheet, as persuasively documented by Richard Foster in The Real Bettie Page, is extensive, instructive...
...Bettie brandished a knife and forced Harry and the kids to pray before a portrait of Jesus. "If you take your eyes off this picture," she shouted, "I'll cut your guts out!" Foster reports that she was charged with breach of the peace and confined in Jackson Memorial, a state hospital, for four months. Then Harry took her back home...
...four that morning, while a boarder in the Santa Monica home of Leonie Haddad, she entered the bedroom of her sleeping landlady, straddled her and shook her awake, brandishing a foot-long serrated bread knife and whispering, "God has inspired me to kill you!" She attacked Haddad, Foster writes, "slicing her from the corner of her mouth to her ear ... Bettie stabbed Haddad four times in the chest, narrowly missing her heart... stabbed the hand eight times, severing the top of Haddad's third finger." When brought to court, "Bettie pleaded not guilty but changed her plea to not guilty...
...huge exporting firms that are the foundation of Russia's recent prosperity have suddenly dried up, and that's having an immediate effect on machinery makers and other manufacturers. Construction has also seized up in many places. Last month in Moscow, lack of funding stopped work on a Norman Foster - designed skyscraper called the Russia Tower that was going to be the tallest naturally ventilated building in the world. (See pictures of Moscow...