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Rodriguez also took credit for tipping off the police last June, when a truck packed with 800 kg of dynamite was disarmed before it could be parked outside the offices of the daily El Tiempo. He knew about it, Rodriguez said, because his people had intercepted a radio-phone call in which Escobar promised a "big, big surprise" for the newspaper...
...risks in attacking on a Sunday during the day. He remained coolly in control, deliberating and improvising as he went along. In short, the killer was young, highly intelligent, probably with a high school education, and possessed of a confident manner. The police eventually arrested a 175-cm, 7.3-kg (5-ft. 9-in., 160-lb.) black male who was physically strong, very bright and macho, worked in a fast-food restaurant and had been staying with his sister one building away from the victim. He was 15 years...
...celebrate, but for many ex- smokers there is a weighty price to pay on the scale. Last week a study by the Centers for Disease Control confirmed what many former smokers have learned from experience: people who swear off smoking can expect to gain weight -- an average of 3.8 kg (8 lbs.) for women, 2.8 kg (6 lbs.) for men. More disturbing is the finding that 1 in 8 women who quit -- and 1 in 10 male quitters -- add a hefty 13 kg (29 lbs.) or more, while continuing smokers tend to gain much less. The CDC's report, published...
...already completing a plan that would set federal fishing quotas for 39 shark species. It would also ban live finning -- the cruel practice of catching sharks, slicing off their fins and tossing the maimed creatures back into the ocean to die. Dried fins, which fetch up to $117 per kg ($53 per lb.) in Asian markets, are used to make shark-fin soup, a gelatinous delicacy that sells for as much as $50 a bowl in a fine Hong Kong restaurant...
...greet someone face-to-face and to take a book from a shelf. Laptop word processors that "talk" give individuals with no voice a way to communicate. Materials designed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration reduce the average weight of a crippled person's leg braces from 6.4 kg (14 lbs.) to .45 kg...