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...firecrackers that crackled in the plaza of the central city of Morelia late Monday in celebration of Mexico's independence day served as a prelude to a nastier set of explosions. When the smoke cleared, more than 100 revelers lay bleeding on the paving stones. The clearly stunned state governor Leonel Godoy, who had moments earlier been presiding over the festivities, declared the attack the work of Mexico's increasingly violent drug gangs. By Tuesday, as annual parades marched somberly through the Mexican cities, at least eight victims of the blast had died from their wounds, and several more were...
...high-flying energy company made billions trading esoteric derivatives until insiders blew the whistle on Enron's massive accounting fraud - prompting a bankruptcy filing that rocked the U.S. financial world. The company was instantly devalued and thousands of employees were laid off, their pensions evaporated. Executives Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling were both convicted of fraud and other charges, although Lay died before being sentenced...
...James P. Currier, founder and chairman of Medpedia—whose stated mission is to become the world’s largest collaborative online encyclopedia of medicine and health—has called upon faculty at the Medical School to lay the groundwork for the project...
...fact that the bishops were already on a hair-trigger alert. Two weeks earlier on the same program, Brokaw had posed the same question to Pelosi, who had refused to answer. "Over the history of the Church," she insisted, "this is an issue of controversy." It is true that lay and church scholars engaged in a vigorous debate in the 1960s over the acceptability of contraceptive use before Pope Paul VI ended the discussion by reiterating official Church opposition to birth control. But the issue was separate from the question of when life begins, over which there has been little...
...answer lay some several hundred miles north of Boston...