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...Mount Hood Wilderness...
...they want him so badly." - Jorge Chabat, a Mexico City expert on law enforcement, on the government's inability to catch him despite the arrests of 18 cartel leaders since 2001 (Los Angeles Times, July 5, 2005) "People see Chapo Guzman as the social bandit, as a Robin Hood. He fixes up the towns and puts lights in the cemetery. He is part of Sinaloan folklore." - Victor Hugo Aguilar, a professor at the Autonomous University of Sinaloa, on Guzman's influence over the region's people and culture (Chicago Tribune, July...
...ribosome is] the catalytic core of the cell,” said Michael C. Jewett, a research fellow who worked with Church. “The advantage of building them [in a lab] is that you can manipulate the system directly. It’s like opening the hood of a car and having direct access to the machination...
...case of Final Exit, according to authorities - and an undercover agent who infiltrated the group - the four arrestees instructed a 58-year-old man how to kill himself using a plastic hood filled with helium. The defendants face at least up to five years in prison if convicted. It appears the man who died was not terminally ill; according to the Associated Press, his doctor told authorities that although he suffered from cancer that left his face disfigured, he was cancer-free at the time of his suicide...
...enforcement believes otherwise, and has charged the group with assisted suicide, evidence-tampering and racketeering. Authorities say the group broke the law by assisting with at least 130 suicides across the country and disposing of the helium tank and "exit hood" used to ensure a person inhales only that gas instead of oxygen. The authorities have also frozen the group's assets, effectively putting it out of commission. Four of the group's members - including its medical director, Dr. Lawrence Egbert, who lives in Baltimore - were charged last week in the death of a Georgia man in June. (See pictures...