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...knockout, beating British boxer Ricky "the Hitman" Hatton on May 2 and becoming the International Boxing Organization and Ring Magazine World Light Welterweight champion. It was a world record-tying sixth division title and fourth consecutive win in a different weight class. All that plus a 49-3-2 record are why some may think of him as the best fighter of a generation...
...evidence that such elementary actions can be remarkably effective in slowing the spread of infectious disease. (Studies have shown that towns that instituted similar measures during the 1918 flu had death rates that were considerably lower than the norm.) "I think [the government] has been getting an A-plus for how they've communicated the threat here," says Jeffrey Levi, executive director of the Trust for America's Health. (See "From A-Z: The Year in Medicine...
...There were revelations aplenty, especially in the early-'30s Warner melodramas; they instructed a new generation of old-film fans in the urban snarl, panache and breathless efficiency of the young James Cagney, Barbara Stanwyck and Bette Davis, plus a bunch of directors that scholars had mostly ignored. But TNT was clogged with commercials, sometimes 15-20 mins. an hour. In time, the oldies format gave way to basketball and reruns of '70s TV shows. The FOOFs were disconsolate... and ecstatic when free TCM premiered Apr. 14, 1994 (again with Gone with the Wind). The same library would be ransacked...
...Plus, these clunky reggaeton-rockin' menaces don't fit the sleek, cosmopolitan image of today's Panama City, which now has First World aspirations. After several years of unparalleled economic growth and construction, it wants a modern transportation system to fit its sophisticated and worldly ambitions. But getting rid of the second-hand busses has become one of the trickiest parts of Panama City's extreme makeover - and now a central issue in the May 3 presidential elections. "All modern cities have a metro system," said presidential frontrunner Ricardo Martinelli, during a recent speech to the city's top business...