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...reputation for saving expats from the death penalty. She lost an appeal in February and became the first white person executed in Botswana. SENTENCED. PERRY WACKER, 32, to 14 years in prison for the manslaughter of 58 Chinese illegal immigrants who suffocated in the back of his truck while being smuggled into Britain from Belgium; in Maidstone, England. Of the original 60, two surviving immigrants told how Wacker had closed the air vent on one of the hottest days of the year. CONVICTION OVERTURNED. For BENAZIR BHUTTO, 49, the two-time Prime Minister of Pakistan; in Islamabad. The Supreme Court...
...Kertes may have helped with Markovic's arrest, since both appear to have been involved in different capacities in an assassination attempt on opposition leader Vuk Draskovic in 1999. Police are attempting to document who ordered that hit - in which a truck slammed into Draskovic's convoy on a Serbian highway, killing four in his entourage - as well as several other notable assassinations which occurred during the panicky last months of the regime. Milosevic's role in those killings has long been suspected but never confirmed. If convicted on those more serious charges Milosevic and others could face the death...
...your SUV? Relief is at hand in the eight-ton, 9-ft.-tall MaxiMog Global Expedition Vehicle, designed by Bran Ferren, and now featured in the high-tech "Workspheres" exhibit at New York City's Museum of Modern Art. Crafted of stainless steel on a modified Mercedes-Benz Unimog truck chassis, the MaxiMog has a 360-h.p. engine. The vehicle is street-legal in the U.S. and Europe, yet it can ford a 6-ft.-deep stream and climb a 45[degree] slope. For a mere $500,000 to $800,000, you can order a customized Maximog from Unicat Fahrzuegbau...
...come for the chicken; it's getting the chicken to the people. Popeyes' chicken is always fresh, never frozen, and the chain normally requires that shipments spend no more than eight days traveling from farm to franchise. But it will take 12 days to transport the chicken by truck and ship to Fairbanks--a detail that the local supervisor of the franchise realized just 20 days before the store was scheduled to open...
...that her poems, in the consistency of their composition, form a scrapbook of those sound bytes, running together in their similarity, each poem a byte composed of smaller bytes. Here is a sampling of those bytes: “‘Everything is only nothing’s truck.’ / I would revise it and say that everything is only / nothing, truncated.” “I’m gifted, I give in. I give you / all my old synesthetic fire.” These are the more saccharine moments, but they...