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More pragmatically, a continuing military debacle in the northern Caucasus might not only push the core area of Russia back into a police state but also trigger additional declarations of independence throughout the ethnically and culturally varied Russian Federation. That could plunge the vast area stretching from the Arctic Ocean south to the Black Sea and from the Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad clear across Eurasia to the North Pacific into chaos or civil war. At the most extreme, some Western analysts are whispering again a phrase last heard in 1991, when the Soviet Union was breaking up: "Yugoslavia with nukes...
...State of Texas has argued, repeatedly and eloquently, that Jesse DeWayne Jacobs did not pull the trigger of a .38-cal. pistol that killed a woman named Etta Ann Urdiales in 1986. The state convinced a jury that Jacobs did not even know that his sister, who the prosecutor insisted was the trigger person, had a gun at the time the crime was committed. Yet for that crime Jesse DeWayne Jacobs became the first person executed by Texas...
...year sentence for participating in the murder of a mentally retarded man in Illinois in 1973. Immediately after Urdiales' murder, he had gone on a six- month robbery spree. However, he recanted the confession at his 1987 murder trial, saying that his sister had pulled the trigger. Still, the state used his confession as the centerpiece of the case against him. A jury found him guilty and sentenced him to death...
...they are just waiting for something to become angry enough to kill somebody." That "something" is the harsh rhetoric of the anti-choice movement. It is the movement that put the bullets in John Salvi's gun. All that was left for him to do was to pull the trigger...
...side of the earth could produce massive volcanic activity at the antipode -- a point directly opposite on the far side -- and that the combined effect would cause disaster. Says Jon Hagstrum, the U.S. Geological Survey paleomagneticist who co-authored the theory: "This would be the best way to trigger worldwide mass extinctions because you have both hemispheres affected...