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...Texas Hero or Killer? On June 30, a Houston-area grand jury declined to indict Joe Horn after he fatally shot two burglars in the back as they fled his neighbor's house, an episode captured in a chilling recording of a 911 call between Horn and a police dispatcher. The case tested Texas' so-called castle-doctrine law--which states that people threatened in their home have a right to use deadly force--and triggered accusations of vigilantism and ethnic bias in the criminal-justice system. Horn, who expressed remorse over the killings, is white, while the victims were...
...tape offered up a few clues that Joe Horn had every intention of killing the men who were breaking into the house next door. For example, there was that time, six minutes into the phone call, when he told the dispatcher, "I'm gonna kill...
...players posted goals. Rising senior Michael Losak started things off, and native Englishman David Ashby— Yale’s substitute, who was filling in for the recently injured Bulldog Robert Burk—added two scores. Unfortunately for Yale, time was not on its side, as the horn sounded just seconds after recent graduate Adam Nelson posted goal number five, ending all hopes for bragging rights and a comeback...
While unicorn legend evolved in the West, in the Far East, similar creatures developed in mythology. The Japanese unicorn, or kirin (after which the beer is named) is a fierce creature able to root out criminals, instantly punishing them by piercing them through the heart with its horn. In China, the similarly named qilin had quite a different disposition. It harms no creature, and its presence is considered a good omen. Reportedly, a qilin appeared to Confucius' mother before he was born...
...tooth which it uses for mating and to pick holes through the ice. Indeed, perhaps that's what became of the unicorns that never made it onto the ark. They took to the sea. Throughtout the centuries, the narwahl's long, corkscrewing tooth was sold as a unicorn's horn, proof that the most elusive of creatures existed...