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...Moving at 10,000 km/h (6,000 m.p.h.) -- but as slowly as a distant airplane to the human eye -- the shadow crept down the face of the sun. Soon it obscured all but a thin lower crescent that gleamed against the darkening sky like the Cheshire Cat's smile. Next the corners of the smile vanished, leaving a single dazzling gem of brilliance at the bottom of a circle of light -- the so-called diamond-ring effect. At 7:28, the solitaire blinked out. And, as if the hand of God had thrown a switch, day turned to night...
...Cali cartel is a poor invention of General Jaime Ruiz Barrera, or as he was called affectionately, Gato ("the Cat") Ruiz. He was commander of the Fourth Brigade from 1986 to 1988, if I'm not wrong. He chased Mr. Escobar and his partners persistently and yet failed in all his attempts. He didn't succeed in gaining immortality with the Medellin cartel. Thus the Cali cartel was invented, and with it the war over the New York market. Of course this tale about the Cali cartel has been helped along by my differences with Mr. Escobar...
...also helped kill your own mentor, Pasquale ("Pat the Cat") Spirito...
...Texas, says federal fish and wildlife agent Jim Stinebaugh, canned hunts are quick and dirty, most of them the work of "fly-by-night promoters who find a cat at an exotic-animal auction and then put a deal together." Two hunting guides, Daniel Lee Moody and Ronald Terrell McCloud, were indicted in San Antonio last April for unlawfully conspiring to sell and transport a black leopard; McCloud has pleaded guilty to a lesser charge. A sickening videotape shows the leopard being released from a cage and running under a nearby pickup truck. A pack of dogs flushed...
...damages in such cases are difficult, and Latimer has had no luck. Nor, so far, has Christina Locek, 42, of River Grove, Ill., a onetime professional ice skater and pianist who says her health was destroyed in 1985 when a lawn-care service sprayed her neighbor's yard. Her cat and dog died the same day, she says, and she continues to suffer partial paralysis, substantial vision loss, headaches and blood disorders. Another woman told the Senate subcommittee that she sometimes slept in her car to avoid lawn spraying in her neighborhood...