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...mayor of Nagasaki, Iccho Itoh, was shot and seriously wounded Tuesday night, while campaigning for re-election in this southwestern Japanese city. The 61-year-old, running for his fourth term as mayor, was shot twice in the back near his campaign office at around 7:50 p.m. local time, and was taken to the hospital, where he remains in critical condition. Itoh's heart had stopped, according to NHK, Japan's national broadcaster, but there has been no further news about his condition as of midnight...
...short term, some of the northern, industrialized countries may actually benefit. Canada, Russia and parts of the U.S. will for a time experience shorter winters and bumper harvests. But the already arid southwestern U.S. could become a permanent dust bowl, while Australia will see intensified droughts and agricultural decline throughout the country's populated south and east...
Einstein was descended, on both parents' sides, from Jewish tradesmen and peddlers who had, for at least two centuries, made modest livings in the rural villages of Swabia in southwestern Germany. With each generation they had become increasingly assimilated into the German culture they loved--or so they thought. Although Jewish by cultural designation and kindred instinct, they had little interest in the religion itself...
When Michal Kalwasinski, a young manager at a Vodafone outlet outside Dublin, goes home to the southwestern Polish city of Wroclaw, he no longer bothers to look up his old friends. What would be the point? "They've all left for Britain," he says. With good reason. Polish migration expert Pawel Kaczmarczyk, of Warsaw's Center of Migration Research, says that for a typical Polish villager, "it has become no more difficult to get work in London than in Warsaw--it may even be easier...
...milk. Raw, unpasteurized milk. To supply a small but growing market among health-conscious city and suburban dwellers for milk taken straight from the udder, Hebron was dealing the stuff on behalf of a farming cooperative he runs in southwestern Michigan. An undercover agricultural investigator had infiltrated the co-op as part of a sting operation that resulted in the seizure of $7,000 worth of fresh-food items, including 35 lbs. of raw butter, 29 qt. of cream and all those gallons of the suspicious white liquid. Although Hebron's home office was searched and his computer seized...