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...just the latest serious charges of wrongdoing leveled at Daley's administration. U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald (who is also investigating the leak of CIA officer Valerie Plame's identity) has helped convict more than 20 city employees of taking bribes in exchange for contracts in the city's Hired Truck program, which doles out transportation work to private companies. When announcing the recent indictments, Fitzgerald, who has also charged that a heroin ring was operating out of a city water-filtration plant, said he hoped that his probe would shake a city hall "where people are being scored...
...taken a bad turn. In Nacogdoches, Texas, 17-year-old Heath Drewery was in bed when he was jolted by what sounded like an explosion outside his house. "I heard this big rumble and thought a train had derailed," he says. He and his brother piled into their truck and drove into town, where the street was littered with debris. "There were pieces all over the place. It looked like it was charcoal." In San Augustine, things got more grisly still, when body parts fell from...
...called Tanna's chiefs together and predicted the coming of new and strange objects and ideas. "He said there is a big boat coming, a plane and the icebox, the truck, and this place will be different," says senior man Johnson Kuanu. Some new things, he told them, would be good, including parts of Christianity, and some bad. "He said we had to be careful." Along a winding track leading from the banyan, a wind-blown cliff looks down to where the forest surges to meet the sand. This is where John Frum is believed to have first appeared...
...Senator Richard Lugar established in 1991 to help Russia secure its inventory of tactical nuclear weapons, which many fear has not been under close control since the demise of the Soviet Union. "These are weapons that could be transported by one person, put in the back of a truck and blow up a large part of a city," Nunn said recently. He continued, "We don't know how many weapons the Russians have or where they're located. We hope they do, but we're not confident of that...
...song itself dates back to 1948, when Boston mayoral candidate Walter A. O’Brien, who advocated streamlining the T’s fare system, commissioned the song and had it played from a truck that drove in circles around the city...