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...derelict mining ship won't respond to radio contact, it's usually a bad sign. In this top-notch, incredibly bloody sci-fi horror game (PS3, Xbox 360 and PC), the bad guy is an alien life-form that reanimates the dead people on board into zombies. You shoot them...
...military chief, has publicly railed against U.S. operations on Pakistani soil, saying they help the cause of the militancy; he has promised to protect the borders from such incursions. After the September 25 incursion, chief military spokesman Major General Athar Abbas told TIME that Pakistani troops would hereafter shoot at any force "seen as hostile or in an offensive posture," coming across the border. Any Americans making the crossing, he warned, should not expect Pakistani soldiers to ask questions before shooting. "At the level of a [border] post [Pakistani troops] are not to be given shades of an order... they...
Such behavior was little tolerated by the region's early settlers, who would cheerfully shoot the reptiles on sight - all the more eagerly once the market for their skins began to grow. But in 1971, amid fears for the species' survival, hunting crocodiles was outlawed. Croc numbers have since recovered, but whenever a human dies in an attack - about once a year in Australia - a row erupts over whether protecting such a deadly predator is justified...
...Zalabaromfi, which means whole families will be out of a job," she says. At age 55, Kiss Tóthné worries that for her, too, it will be "impossible to find a new job ... At times like these, I feel that if I had a gun I would shoot myself...
...foreign investment out of the country, and to help steady the nation's sinking currency, Hungarians are pointing fingers at people much closer to home. Work-council president Kiss Tóthné is frank in her appraisal. "On second thought, if I had a gun I might not shoot myself," she says. "I might shoot the management instead." - by John Nadler