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...After the recent string of murders, police have started conducting sting operations at sex-for-hire haunts and are offering rewards for information leading to arrests. All three of the women killed recently appear to have been robbed and murdered by someone posing as a client. Police found their badly bruised bodies on the floors of their apartments. Autopsies confirmed that they were each suffocated to death, leading police to suspect a serial killer was responsible. On Feb. 4, police arrested a local 24-year-old man in connection with the most recent killing, a 38-year-old from Thailand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hong Kong Alarmed Over Sex-Worker Murders | 2/10/2009 | See Source »

...College and plans to go into art dealing. Afternoons, Wyeth teaches the family trade to his other son, Jamie, 17. So fast has Jamie learned painting that the proceeds from his work sit in front of the staid Wyeth house like a visitor from Mars-a red-hot Corvette Sting Ray. Says Wyeth, "Some day I'll be known as James Wyeth's father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME Cover: Andrew Wyeth's World | 1/16/2009 | See Source »

Becker, Gary • belief of that Internet correspondent was teenage girl leads to sex sting arrest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Slansky's Weekly Index of the News | 1/16/2009 | See Source »

...Pentagon soon will begin paying monthly bonuses of up to $500 to troops barred from leaving the military because they're needed for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. A fatter paycheck will take some of the sting out of the military's high demand for troops and the resulting stop-loss policy. But it won't do anything to dry the tears of soldiers' children distraught over Dad's or Mom's absence. Now the Pentagon wants to create computerized hologram-like moms and dads that can talk with the kids when their parents are deployed far from home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Daddy Is Off at War: A Hologram Home? | 1/9/2009 | See Source »

...Despite these flaws, President Bush has made a noble effort to protect the aquatic world. However, his pioneering steps should be the first, not the last, as future administrations supplement his efforts with a more holistic approach to protecting the seas. With time, some of the sting of even this President’s failures will be tempered by the legacy he leaves with his deep blue heart...

Author: By Steven T. Cupps | Title: No Reef is an Island | 1/8/2009 | See Source »

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