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...with CDs featuring live concerts and unreleased tracks by such performers as Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, R.E.M. and Bruce Springsteen. One of the most sought-after bootlegs is Prince's so-called Black Album, which his label, Warner Bros., has never released at the singer's request. Since May, bootleg copies of outtakes from U2's unfinished new album have been circulating in Europe...
...drive past a DEA team running another surveillance in Queens. As the agents started tailing him, he whipped his Acura into a fast U-turn and melted into the traffic. The next thing the agents knew, Leto was back in Colombia -- where his luck ran out. At the request of the U.S. government, police arrested...
Family members become more and more pressed to provide organs to save relatives. It is a bizarre request, of course, difficult to refuse, and can lead to ugly family conflicts. As Alexander Capron, a bioethicist at the University of Southern California, says, "a good medical team knows how to help a potential donor to say no." Often, doctors simply lie and say that the relative who does not want to do it is "not a match...
...most famous controversy over a spurned request led to the courtroom last year. Tamas Bosze, a Chicago bar owner, was told that only a marrow transplant could rescue his son Jean-Pierre, 12, from leukemia. The boy's only potential donors were twin half-siblings born out of wedlock to the father's former girlfriend. Bosze sued the woman in an attempt to compel her to have the children tested for tissue compatibility. She refused, and a court upheld her decision. Last November, Jean-Pierre Bosze died...
...response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed by the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental group, the Defense Intelligence Agency last week released an internal estimate of 100,000 Iraqi soldiers killed, 300,000 wounded. But DIA said those figures had an "error factor of 50% or higher" -- to a statistician, a grotesque number. The Pentagon has little wish to refine its figures either. It has strained to avoid both the derision aroused by the body counts announced during the Vietnam War and anything that might sound like a callous boast. Some other assessments indicate the U.S. figures...