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...legal tunnel. More than 20 studies failed to link the implants to diseases they allegedly cause. Such evidence has forced judges and juries to side with manufacturers in 16 of the last 20 lawsuits. However, thousands of lawsuits are still pending, and about a half-million women have reserved the right...
...mainstay of a $1 billion-a-year game-fishing industry, the disease has infected hatcheries, devastated trout on a prime stretch of the Colorado River and spilled into 13 of 15 major river drainages. On one 55-mile stretch of Montana's famous Madison River, an estimated half-million fish have been killed since 1990--including 90% of the fingerling rainbows--and the catch rate of adult rainbows has plummeted 75%. Warns Dick Vincent, a Montana state-fisheries manager: "On some rivers, we're looking at a real threat to the entire species...
...peacekeepers last night discovered 4,000 Rwandan bodies in two grisly caches. Half, found in the country's southwest, were not buried, and the rest were tossed in a mass grave 78 miles from Rwanda's capital of Kigali. The corpses are believed to be Tutsi murdered by the majority Hutu during the recent three-month civil war -- and just a fraction of the half-million thought dead. The find increases the pressure on U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali to set up a war-crimes tribunal for the perpetrators before the surviving Tutsi -- who won the war -- take matters...
...original Woodstock -- the original organizer pulled out complaining the event was getting too commercial. He also left the show looking for a new angel. If Bethel's crew can land on their feet, the show will mark the first concert at Max Yasgur's famous farm since a half-million flocked to the big show...
...rental car shill, the other a member of that most dispensible of species--the "aspiring actor/model". Are these two typical of murder victims? Is their loss the greatest tragedy on planet Earth this year, worthy of the global mourning that Rwanda cannot buy at the price of a half-million lives...