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Clinton went south to meet with President Andres Pastrana and formally launch a controversial $1.3 billion military aid package to help the Colombian government battle an unholy alliance of drug lords and Marxist guerrillas. As a welcoming gesture, the rebels bombed three banks in Cali and blew up a section of coastal highway the day before Clinton arrived, while students protesting the US aid occupied a building in the capital, Bogota. Most of the violence in the country - where the murder rate is said to be higher than the auto theft rate - is far from the relatively tranquil resort town...
Sometime later, two more early-onset Alzheimer's genes were found, Presenilin-1 and Presenilin-2. Like APP, these genes were dominant; a child who received just one gene from either parent would inevitably get the disease. One of the most tragic examples involved a 4,000-member Colombian family that had been haunted for generations by Alzheimer's. Yet such cases, researchers were only too well aware, accounted for merely a small fraction of all cases of Alzheimer's disease. Still other genes, they reasoned, must be involved in the great majority of cases--those in which dementia does...
...Refused to watch K-911 b Hurled a can of beer at a flight attendant and bit the first officer c Had a can of beer and vomited on the first officer d Complained that there was no Colombian coffee...
...Colombian prosecutors won't comment. Justice officials say they are not vouching for the Colombian allegations. Tafur, who has been in a cell in Philadelphia for over a month, doesn't want to be sent home branded as a fugitive. "I am a prisoner of the war on drugs," he says...
...problem: it seems Tafur, 36, is actually a lawyer who worked in a coca-eradication program in Colombia. He came to the U.S. for treatment after a plane crash and was studying environmental law when Colombian prosecutors asked that he be detained. On Dec. 3, 1998, police there seized seven tons of cocaine in Cartagena. Prosecutors claim $350,000 of Tafur's money was being used for the shipment. But Tafur has bank records that show the $350,000 in question was part of a widow's pension the Colombian Congress had awarded to his mother. Tafur's father...