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Favre is certainly not the first athlete to flip-flop (twice) on saying farewell to his game. Pitcher Roger Clemens remains the reigning king of comebacks: he retired a total of three times, in 2003, 2006 and 2007. Lance Armstrong left cycling in 1996 to battle cancer but returned two years later, going on to win seven consecutive Tour de France titles...
...claimed more than a dozen victims in September; this year's death toll in the restive region has already reached around 350 and, if the pace of killings continues, the 2009 count will top last year's figure. Little wonder, then, that the country's revered 81-year-old King Bhumibol Adulyadej - whose hospitalization on Sept. 19 for fever and fatigue only added to Thailand's overall sense of unease - cautioned in August that if national unity is not restored, the kingdom could "collapse." (See pictures of the Thai protests...
...through Thai courts has increased. Shortly after Abhisit told TIME that "there has been an improvement [although] there may have been one or two cases which somehow went off the radar," a Thai political activist named Daranee Charnchoengsilpakul was sentenced to 18 years' imprisonment for insulting Thailand's King and Queen during a series of public speeches...
...segment is getting crowded. Toyota, Volkswagen, GM and Nissan are expected to roll out small cars in India over the next two years. Suzuki India, king of the tiny automobile, is investing $2.28 billion in the country over the next five years to upgrade factories and strengthen distribution for a raft of new models. Even GM on Sept. 24 announced an unusual collaboration with Bangalore's Reva Electric Car, makers of the G-Wiz, to produce small, affordable electric vehicles for India. Mulally said recently that India would play a big role in accelerating Ford's presence in the Asia...
...their own citizens, hence Polaski's ability to evade arrest for over 30 years.) Political crimes are rarely extraditable because countries don't want to be accused of aiding a coup or opposing a foreign regime. In 1934, an Italian court refused to extradite the assassins of Yugoslavia's King Alexander, on the grounds that the crime was political...