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...were seriously wounded. After toasting their success with male relatives, the Graziano women were taken into custody by local police whose wiretaps had captured many details of the episode. Beyond such senseless bloodletting, more women are moving into positions of real power, often filling in for their husbands and brothers who are in jail or on the run. Ninetta Bagarella, wife of captured top Corleone boss Salvatore "Tot?" Riina who directed Cosa Nostra for a decade, is thought to be the brains allied to her husband's pure brutality. "Their role goes well beyond raising the family," said Cipriani. "Women...
...Some of them openly express feelings of desperation. Very often there's a lot of anxiety, which is also a big risk factor. The other emotion you see very often in elderly suicides is guilt, that somehow they did wrong in their relationship with their children or with their husband or wife. Even if there's a germ of truth in it, it's exaggerated a hundredfold. You also need to look for signs where the person talks as if they're not going to go on living. They say things like "You will all be better off without...
...mother doesn't want anyone observing too closely. "Please," she says, hands frantically kneading the quilt, "do not speak of this room." Indeed, the newlyweds point to the desperation that has engulfed the hardscrabble villages of China's central Shaanxi province. For Liu and Hai are not just husband and wife but also first cousins...
...girls who would have been born if not for sex-based abortions and female infanticide. Sons are valued far more than daughters in China because males maintain the family line and care for parents when they grow old. Girls, on the other hand, leave their parents' home for their husband's clan when they marry. In China's poorest villages, fathers don't even count their daughters when asked how many children they have. "Two strong sons," says a millet farmer surnamed Yang when asked about his family. As an afterthought, he adds: "Two donkeys. A pig. And one daughter...
...husband smelled a scam, but Otsuka invested her family's savings of $125,000 after learning of G.O. Group's miraculous new product, Uniba-G Tea. Made of banaba leaf from the Philippines, Ogami touted the tea as a revolutionary cure for obesity and diabetes. He spared no expense to exploit its marketing potential, hiring Jean-Claude Van Damme to appear in the Uniba-G TV commercial, in which the action star chugs the tea and kickboxes punks. Though the ad aired only a handful of times, the endorsement of Ogami's "close personal friend" received prominent play...