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...victims of Madoff's alleged crime are in a very strange place. They still have their big homes. At least for now, the furniture is still polished, the Lexuses are quietly garaged, and the people still stand - except for poor M. Villehuchet, who last week in New York slit his wrists. But underneath these material reminders of a former life there is nothing - or very little...
...they believe the life of the popular British exchange student, known to her friends as "Mez", was brutally cut short. After trying to force Kercher to join in group sex with them and Knox, prosecutors say the men held the victim down, and it was the American who allegedly slit her roommate's throat...
When Saltwater crocodiles killed a human on Australia's northeast coast in the old days, a posse of gun-toting locals would converge on the area, blast all crocs to death, slit open their bellies to establish guilt, and release the unfortunate victim's remains for a decent burial. But in these environmentally enlightened times, authorities are taking a very different approach - and not everybody is happy about...
...Colonel of the Russian Army (and until recently commander of the Spetsnaz Vostok battalion in Chechnya), was stripped of his command and placed under investigation by Moscow under Kadyrov's pressure. The killer shot Ruslan point-blank in downtown Moscow, penetrating an armor-plated car by way of a slit in a window while the Chechen leader was on his way out of the Kremlin, where he had pleaded Sulim's case with an important member of the administration...
...about swimming with a dolphin. At swims outside the U.S., the animals have been abused. But Discovery Cove's dolphins work only about two hours a day, according to head trainer Jesse Pottebaum. You'll learn a lot--almost too much--about dolphin anatomy (don't touch the "genital slit," we were told). And the mammals, which weigh around 425 lb. (about 200 kg), are captivatingly sweet to humans. When a trainer urges you to give the animal a kiss, you'll oblige, even if you have deeply mixed feelings about man-dolphin love...