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...overpowered by the Alabama's 20 U.S. crew members but managed to take captain Richard Phillips hostage, inciting a standoff with rescue ships deployed to the scene. In the latest surge of attacks in the region, Somali pirates have hijacked six ships in five days, after seizing 15 in March and more than 130 last year, according to the International Maritime Bureau...
Andrea Mead Lawrence, who died on March 31 at age 76, always strove to be exceptional throughout her life. And she was. At 15, Andrea made the U.S. ski team that competed at the 1948 St. Moritz Olympics, where she finished eighth in the slalom event. She was the youngest U.S. skier ever to compete at the Olympics...
...KIRSTEN AUSTAD, SIMEON KIMMEL, SHAMSHER SAMRA, and DAVID TIAN Boston, Mass. March...
...this country, they treat people who owe money worse than criminals," says Vila, 49, an employee of a health-insurance company. Earlier this year, she fell behind on her mortgage payments. On March 31, she received a call from an unidentified collection agency that said it worked with the bank who had issued her mortgage and informed her that the next day it would be sending three bullfighters to "take up a collection" on her behalf from her neighbors. "I'm a serious person. I've paid my bills my whole life," says Vila. "This is a really painful situation...
...legislation is intended to make that line clearer. Presented in a committee of the lower house of parliament by the Catalan party Convergence and Union on March 10, the bill is designed, according to spokesman Josep Sánchez y Llibre, "to protect citizens against those acts that attack their dignity or invade their privacy." It won the committee's unanimous support, a critical step toward becoming...