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...another Illinois case this month, four men who served up to 18 years for a double murder they did not commit reached a $36 million settlement with Cook County. In their suits, the so-called Ford Heights Four charged that the sheriff's office fabricated evidence and ignored or hid leads pointing to the four men who actually committed the crime. In the past dozen years, Illinois has freed 11 men from death row--one less than it has executed since 1977. Nine of the freed men were black or Latino...
...Hiram Bingham finds Machu Picchu, a 15th century Inca settlement high in the Peruvian Andes...
...discovery of an 11th century Norse settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland, confirms that Europeans reached the New World centuries earlier than Columbus...
NATO warplanes--including a large U.S. contingent-dropped bombs and missiles on the targets as part of the first wave of attacks aimed at halting a Serbian offensive and forcing a peace settlement in Kosovo on the recalcitrant Serbs...
Last fall Cargill was accused by Pioneer Hi-Bred International, a leading seed developer, of stealing its closely guarded genetic material. Initially, Cargill vehemently denied any wrongdoing, but during settlement talks it acknowledged uncovering "problem areas." Though it won't elaborate much, Cargill says an employee who previously worked for Pioneer and is the target of a lawsuit may have mixed some of Pioneer's breeding material into Cargill's seed corn products without the company's knowledge...