Word: ganges
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...from 16 to 57 in age, for beating to death two men whose van had plowed into a porch crowded with youths, injuring three of them; on charges of first-degree murder; in Chicago. Some 100 people are believed to have stood by and watched while the suspects, all gang members, pummeled the motorists with their hands, feet, bricks and stones. DIED. HARRY QUADRACCI, 66, philanthropist and entrepreneur who started a tiny company in an abandoned factory and turned it into the $2 billion-a-year Quad/Graphics, printer of TIME, Newsweek, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and other magazines and catalogs...
...second front" has never rivaled Afghanistan in size, ambition or difficulty. Yet, in the Philippines, where last week most of the 1,200-strong American contingent pulled out, the war, and the battle for hearts and minds, is apparently being won. A top leader of the Abu Sayyaf kidnap gang was quickly taken out, and as U.S. troops left, scores of locals showed up to regretfully send them off. During Wednesday's farewell ceremonies, U.S. Brigadier General Donald Wurster declared the mission "an absolute success." In a piece of agitprop reminiscent of mid-century American police actions...
...captive, including American missionaries Martin and Gracia Burnham. Instead of giving U.S. troops carte blanche, Arroyo welcomed their offer of training and military aid. On June 7, a Philippine patrol found the hostages, but Martin Burnham was among those killed in the rescue attempt. Later that month, soldiers cornered gang leader Abu Sabaya, who was apparently shot while trying to escape in a boat. (His body was never found...
...Some consumers say risks are minimal and worth taking. Li Gang, 30, lost 15 kilos in a month while taking a Chinese diet pill. There were troubling side effects. "I became very impatient, and I felt my brain was slow," says Li, who works for a foreign consulting company in Beijing. But he says he was pleased to be slimmer and "In any case, (the side effects) went away when I stopped taking" the drug...
...already possesses, a former Iraqi nuclear engineer told the U.S. Senate last week $355.4 billion has been allocated for U.S. defense in this year?s budget, a 10% increase over last year?s total 14 men could face the death penalty if convicted of involvement in the June gang rape of a woman in Pakistan 1.1% is how much the U.S. economy grew in the second quarter of 2002, a sharp drop from the 5% growth recorded in the previous quarter...