Word: lethality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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MURDER INC. Crime and fame make a lethal cocktail. This century, the public drank...
...meteoric rise of the Juarez cartel now headed by Vicente Carrillo Fuentes. As the U.S. has cracked down on drug cartels in Colombia in the past decade, the business has shifted north and into the hands of Mexican traffickers, who play by the same bloody rules that characterized the lethal reign of the Colombians. Mexico's narco-industry is now a $30 billion-a-year business. "The flow of drugs through Mexico to the U.S. is not slowing down," says a U.S. official. "If anything, it's increasing...
...mined by thousands of men, women and children in backbreaking alluvial pits, fuel a rebel war that has torn the country apart for more than two decades. In a strange juxtaposition of the global economy, their hard work, which provides the resources to help buy some of the most lethal weapons on earth, also produces baubles for the delicate fingers of the world's brides in the most romantic moments of their life. Love and war have often been conjoined, but rarely like this...
...After eating a final meal of of a large blueberry muffin, boiled yams, a bit of rice broth and some bamboo, Hsing-Hsing received a lethal injection and has been dead...
Even without news leaks, wild conspiracy theories flourished in Cairo. Many Egyptians are certain Washington is engaged in a vast cover-up to protect itself and libel their nation. More likely, they say, an American missile mistakenly blew up the plane or maybe there were lethal laser emissions--and the pilot was roller-coastering to dodge them. Or an insane hijacker masterminded the crash to damage Egypt's reputation. Or it was a Mossad plot to kill the 33 military officers aboard...