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Robert DeFeo is grim faced. The L.A. city fire department battalion chief would like to be saving lives, but instead is filling and refilling the coroner's station wagon on perpetual duty in the driveway of Northridge Meadows. DeFeo's crew is using buzz saws and jackhammers and Swiss search dogs, and so far he has turned up nine corpses, each crushed while in bed. The coroner's car leaves but always returns. The heroics occurred earlier, when residents pried neighbors from tight spaces or let them down from the roof with knotted fire hoses. The place is crawling with...
...Sweet Touch cafe and bakery seems an innocuous place. It's cozy--the sort of place where you might want to take your mom for a quick lunch and a homemade brownie. But a more careful inspection reveals a few items that might make mom choke on her Swiss roll...
...slice low-fat Swiss chesse...
...Cover with ham, then swiss...
...most despised men in Catholicism. Critics decry his hard-line ways and his apostasy from the seeming liberalism of his youth. They call the German-born prelate "Panzer Kardinal" and conjure up images of Huns and German despots. "He is very sweet -- and very dangerous," the Swiss theologian Hans Kung says. Ratzinger helped force Kung out of a professorship at the University of Tubingen for, among other things, arguing that the church -- speaking through the Pope and its bishops -- is not infallible...