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...peep of the list. When, during the hearing, Representative Gary Ackerman, a New York Democrat, asked David Kotz, the Securities and Exchange Commission's inspector general, what Madoff's assets were, Kotz answered meekly, "We don't have that information." Ackerman finally badgered Kotz to agree to supply the total asset list publicly within a week. We'll see. (See the top 10 scandals...
...maybe we won't. To anyone familiar with the world of numbered accounts, it's hard to believe that the Pirate of Third Avenue will fess up entirely to SEC investigators digging for the remaining $49.15 billion in vanished loot. Maybe the money total is as inflated and false as his victims' accounts; maybe large chunks were taken out by depositors. Either way, outside experts say it stretches credulity to think a clever sociopath and long-term bandit would not take special, even basic steps to protect his extended family from the ugly shame of poverty, particularly since this alleged...
...which, as Reid's team has established, the Milky Way has a lot more of than previous studies had revealed. Dark matter, so called because it gives off little or no light, is one of the most abundant elements in the universe (it constitutes 23% of the universe's total density, whereas normal atoms make up only 4.6%), but because of its relatively recent discovery and our inability so far to gather direct evidence of its existence, it's also the least understood. With tools such as Pohl's map, scientists can achieve a better grasp of the mysterious matter...
...Santa Clara is a continuation of the great progress Miller has made this season. His freshman season he played in just one game and blew out his knee midway though the campaign. Last year, he averaged only six minutes a game in 23 games and scored just 22 total points all season...
...combating disease in Africa: "The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief is the largest commitment by any nation to combat a single disease in history ... The next phase of the program will support treatment for a total of at least 3 million people, the prevention of 12 million new infections, and care for 12 million people ... [Additionally,] The President's Malaria Initiative is on track to reduce malaria deaths by half in 15 targeted countries across Sub-Saharan Africa...