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...case, say Ochoa may have been frightened in the police station, but they point out that he told the same story for years afterward. Nonetheless, two innocent men had been convicted--and one will pay for the rest of his life. In 1991 a fellow inmate wearing steel-toed shoes kicked Danziger in the head. Part of his brain had to be removed, and he now lives in a residential treatment facility in Jacksonville...
...boom. In the heady late 1990s, M and A deals in telecommunications, technology and the media were based on guesses about consumer demand for new services. By contrast, many of the big deals at the moment involve old-school companies in cyclical industries such as oil or steel, and their logic is based on hard-nosed cost savings. Alcan's bid for Pechiney is a case in point. The two companies attempted to combine operations in a three-way merger with a Swiss firm in 1999, only to be thwarted by the E.U.'s antitrust regulators in Brussels. Alcan...
...extraction that can also be used to make nerve gas. That shipment was blocked by German and French authorities. Germany also recently blocked a North Korea-bound consignment of aluminum tubes?key components for the centrifuges used to enrich uranium to bomb-grade quality. Chinese companies have sold specialty steel to North Korea for use in its missile program, as well as gyroscopes and accelerometers (used to measure vibration and g-force) that are potential missile parts. And Russian companies are suspected of selling high-strength maraging steel?used in missiles and centrifuge systems?to Pyongyang...
...could look up and see the sky. It was usually empty—I think a flock of geese may have flown overhead once—but there was something so satisfying about being able to see the sky directly above Jamaica Avenue, unobstructed by that hulking strip of steel; it’s a small thing, though something I hadn’t been able to do at all during my childhood. I’d approach the edge of the platform and look down through the wooden ties of the tracks to see the trucks and cars passing...
This summer, I feel the same relief in the morning as I did during high school each time the train winds around the corner in the distance and approaches the station. The sun glints off the shiny, steel hull of the train racing within yards of apartment windows, and turns it into a beacon warning people to ready themselves to board...