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...said to have been sympathizers of the state's Zapatista guerrillas. The perpetrators: gunmen allegedly loyal to the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.). Last week groups of Tzotzil Maya Indians dressed in colorful garb and carrying religious images were nervously returning to the village of Acteal, where the slaughter took place. "We came back because this is where we're from," said survivor Diego Perez, 32, blinking back tears as he recalled how his father, brother and aunt were killed in cold blood in front of him that day. "But it's hard to feel safe here." In fact, even...
Hong Kong Purged of Chickens Authorities in Hong Kong today began the slaughter of the territory?s entire 1.2 million chicken population, in a bid to head off a killer flu virus at its source. Will it be enough to stop the disease? Full Story...
Hong Kong health officials planned to kill all of the territory?s estimated 1.2 million chickens Monday in a massive 24-hour slaughter operation aimed at snuffing out bird flu at its source. Government workers in white surgical masks and gloves fanned out across the city, bagging corpses with a few cupfuls of lime. The bags will be sealed and buried in government-run landfills...
Each of the city's primary proposals takes a different approach to improving the traffic patterns of the pedestrians and bicyclists who use this park, which once served as a holding ground for Boston's slaughter houses...
...open season!" shouts one brochure. You bet it is--on us. Like lambs to the slaughter, we must make our "health-care elections" by Nov. 30, which means paying more money for less care, even as the cost of other necessities, like bread, milk and Big Macs, is holding steady. My insurer, Kaiser, has hiked premiums 18% since the Clinton health-care bill died a miserable death in 1994. And 8% fewer Americans have health insurance because their employers have decided it just costs too much. Boy, did we show that busybody Hillary a thing or two. It's true...