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Bonds, 43, will probably be around for another season or two. But Michael Vick, star quarterback of the Atlanta Falcons, may have thrown his last NFL pass. A federal grand jury has indicted him for owning a property that held dog fights in which the animals fought to the death (some dogs, the feds allege, were put to death by drowning, gunshot or electrocution). The league is pursuing its own inquiry into the case...
...After several hours of hearing lobs thrown at his agency, Commissioner von Eschanbach got the chance to respond, though he was short on specifics and long on general pronouncements about the need for the FDA to start using "21st century science." It was a phrase that he used often as an explanation for the lab closures, referring to them as necessary consolidations and saying that they were "intended to bring FDA's laboratory infrastructure into the 21st century." To demonstrate the future, von Eschanbach pulled out a large, gun-like device that could be used to immediately identify whether bottled...
...most ways India is still a man's world. "Women are supposed to be under the control of men," says Trupti Panchal, the coordinator of a project on violence against women at India's Tata Institute of Social Sciences. "I have quite a few [women] friends who have been thrown out of their apartments because they work late. They're seen in a different light; as prostitutes. I don't think patriarchy has [left] our society...
...bath house. But she is still struggling. Unable to read and unfamiliar with computers, she says she can hardly manage to add up her accounts. "I gave my youth to sport," she told TIME over the phone, in a voice thick with emotion, "but in return, I was thrown out like garbage with no knowledge, no skill and a barren womb...
Another could come in the form of a lightning blitz of murders, most likely targeting the Sunni sheiks of Anbar province who've thrown their lot in with the Americans. Sheik Abdul Sittar, the leader of the tribal alliance in Anbar province, has already survived at least one suicide attack against him. A successful one, in conjunction with the killing or maiming of one or more of his fellow Sunni chieftains, could largely undo one of the biggest successes the Americans have had against al-Qaeda in Iraq...