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...victims were apparently plucked at random from the countryside surrounding Matamoros. They included Kilroy, a premed major who vanished March 14 after a night of spring-break revelry in the town's cantinas. At 2 a.m. he was lured toward a pickup truck by a thin, scar-faced man who offered a ride. Two toughs threw him into the back and sped off. Five blocks away, Kilroy attempted to escape, but was recaptured and driven to the ranch. There he was gagged and blindfolded with heavy gray tape and tossed into the darkened shed...
April LaSalata of Brentwood, N.Y., for example, sought to escape the bashings of her husband Anthony by divorcing him and obtaining an order of protection. Ignoring the order, Anthony broke into his ex-wife's home last year and stabbed her with a hunting knife, leaving a scar that ran from her throat to her pubic bone. Police arrested him, but he soon got out on bail and resumed harassing April. Two months ago, Anthony shot his wife to death, then committed suicide...
Once regarded as a magic mineral for its fireproofing and insulating properties, asbestos was severely restricted by the EPA in 1973 after high doses of its fibers were found to scar the lungs, causing cancer and other diseases. But by that time, 30 million tons had been wrapped around heating pipes and furnaces, sprayed onto girders and mixed into tiles at a cost of 25 cents per sq. ft. Now property owners are often spending 100 times that amount to remove it, cover it with a sealant, or enclose it with materials like Sheetrock...
Still, physicians are concerned that women who have had a vertical uterine incision, which is now used in less than 1% of all caesareans, risk tearing along the scar. Their advice: better to have another C-section. But the vast majority of those who have undergone C-sections have had the preferred horizontal incision across the lower abdomen, or "bikini cut," and for them last week's announcement may finally break the old saw against vaginal delivery the second time around, and even the third...
...ever hears what the other is saying," Octavio Paz once wrote. "Or if we do hear, we always think the other was saying something else." The roots of the two cultures are so deep and gnarled by time that it is not just language that cuts a deep scar across the continent...