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ARRESTED. Al Unser Sr., 67, and Bobby Unser Sr., 72, car-racing legends; after the brothers separately drove through a roadblock abutting a street named after the Unser family, where a SWAT team had cornered a violent carjacking suspect who ended up fatally shooting himself; in Albuquerque, N.M. Police said they repeatedly warned the Indy 500 champs to leave before arresting them. The Unsers, who were trying to drive to their property, said they did not know the area was a crime scene, denied any wrongdoing and decried the use of unnecessary force. The incident, said Al, was "embarrassing...
...zone, the scene is strangely peaceful. As night falls on Ceduna, the noise of traffic gradually recedes until all that can be heard at the highway roadblock are the dulcet tones of Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton reviewing the new movie Jindabyne on TV. "If you had come between four and five," says quarantine inspector Geoff Provis, 62, dressed in fishing hat and fluoro jacket, "you would have had caravans coming out your ears...
...Town traffic is free to come and go through the roadblock, and Provis and Hoffrichter know the local number plates by heart. Eventually headlights cut through the gloom outside. "What have we got here, Geoff?" asks Hoffrichter, peering into the night. "A local?" Provis has the sharper eyes of the two. "Very local," he says, waving the car through...
...Gates Foundation, whose disease-fighting war chest just doubled in size, thanks to a $30 billion endowment from financier Warren Buffett. Uganda is planning to use its money to provide ARVs to every Ugandan who needs them, but the flood of money for medical care is running into a roadblock common in almost every Third World country: an infrastructure incapable of delivering it. In Uganda, for example, there is only one doctor for every 20,000 citizens--and there far fewer doctors in rural areas like Alenga. It's a challenge simply to identify the needy in this country, much...
...heard that the bride and groom have been hunting for a house to buy, that's a good sign. Homeowners aren't happier in marriage than renters, but there's a permanence to their life - a connection to a community. The house is also a roadblock to divorce, being hard to divide...