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Four days later, after Gail Knisley, 62, was killed by a gunshot while riding in a car near that same strip of highway, Cable called the police. They matched the fragment in his van to the bullet that killed her. Authorities in Ohio last week said 14 recent shootings in the area were linked, five of them through ballistic evidence. All were clustered in a sevenmile patch of Interstate 270, a semirural community of cornfields and strip malls. The first, in May, hit a car that had been left without gas on the shoulder. The next, in August...
...simple point he was making was that it’s not good to fragment things,” the council member said. “He used the analogy of carving at the joint as opposed to cutting at the bone...
...program, as the Senate bill permits, it could be regulated at some future time, even though the bill does not provide for that now. To close off that possibility altogether, the House bill calls for a drug benefit to be administered only through multiple private insurance companies. That would fragment and privatize drug coverage so thoroughly that it could never be regulated like the rest of the Medicare program...
MISSIONARY STYLE Built to house the mortal remains of Goa's most famous visitor, St. Francis Xavier, the Basilica of Bom Jesus is as impressive a fragment of cod baroque as you'll find in Asia. A 16th century missionary, St. Francis worked a diocese that stretched from Africa to China, but he died in Macau while waiting for his Chinese visa to come through...
...century before a JTF investigator happened upon the case of the missing photographers-who had not been counted among the military MIA-and a further two years before a JTF team started excavating Site 2062, sifting through earth and, in JTF parlance, "broken aircraft s___" for the tiniest bone fragment or tooth. Single bicuspids have been enough to identify some MIA, notes Pyle, as Vietnam was the first war in which the U.S. government kept dental records of every soldier. But Site 2062, a remote hillside near the Ho Chi Minh Trail, divulged few secrets beyond that mangled Leica...