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...elderly man lost his leg to another car bomb. Two days after that, Alexei Yeliseyev, the second in command at Vnukovo Airlines, was beaten to death in front of his house. That same day two people were shot to death by gangsters during a car chase on the Rublev Highway. What surprised onlookers was not the sight of a high-speed gun battle along the heavily guarded road. It was the fact that a modest, Russian-made Zhiguli was able to overtake a more powerful Jeep Grand Cherokee...
...solicitation in cyberspace for offers to make you rich overnight? Two states are taking on such Netscams. New Jersey regulators have ordered the author of an electronic chain letter to cease; he's claiming a $5 investment will return participants a fat $60,000. In Missouri the info-highway patrol has targeted an unlicensed stockbroker who "trades" unregistered stocks on the information highway. More than two dozen additional cases are currently under investigation in seven different states.parparWhat's the best scam you've seen in cyberspace? Enter your submission in the folder, NETSCAMS: CYBER SURFERS BEWARE. The author of what...
...encounter brought back terrifying memories of the ethnic cleansing of Kozarac, where Muslims and Croats were rounded up and sent to a soccer stadium in Prijedor. "The next morning we were marched to a highway intersection for selection," recalls Elezovic. "The men, women and children, and old people were separated. A man pushing a stroller with his one-year-old son in it was pulled to the side. They put a vicious dog up to his throat. We could see his insides spilling out. Then he was taken to a garage and shot...
...involving unlicensed drivers is estimated to be a relatively small 3%, but that nonetheless amounts to thousands of deaths and injuries each year across the U.S. And these are only the people who end up in accidents. "The numbers are misleading," says Jerry Tannahill, an analyst for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. "We have no way of knowing how many people are on the roads operating cars who really shouldn...
Humboldt is a region of hardscrabble logging towns along Highway 101 on the foggy coast of northern California. Here it is still possible to see a big truck grinding toward the Pacific Lumber mill at Scotia with a single, monstrous redwood log, 15 ft. in diameter. A tree that can produce logs this size is worth upwards...