Brazilian authorities said they put down at least 11 weekend prison riots that killed three inmates and injured 20 guards and prisoners in the first outbreak of riots since inmates launched a wave of violence that shocked Sao Paolo last month. Alcides da Silva, head of the union of Sao Paulo state prison guards, said at least one rebellion was started by the First Capital Command, or PCC, the same feared gang that initiated a week of street violence and prison uprisings last month that killed almost 200 people across Sao Paulo state.Three prisoners were killed in the new uprisings, one of them decapitated, as inmates in control of the lockups settled scores, the Agencia Estado news service and the Web site of Folha de S. Paulo newspaper reported Sunday....
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 First woman named to head US Episcopal Church |
The U.S. Episcopal Church chose Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori on Sunday as its first woman leader, a move unprecedented in the Anglican church and one likely to produce more turmoil in a faith divided over the ordination of an openly gay bishop. Her election came 30 years after the 2.3 million-member Episcopal Church, the U.S. branch of the worldwide Anglican Communion, approved the ordination of women to the priesthood.The selection seemed likely to provoke controversy, since most other Anglican communities, including the Church of England, do not allow women bishops."It will be a great adventure," said Jefferts Schori, who holds degrees in biology and oceanography and taught religious studies at Oregon State University before her 1994 ordination....
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| Severe Thunderstorms Hit Southern Wisconsin, Spawning Tornado That Ripped Into School, Cut Power |
thunderstorms rolled across southern Wisconsin Sunday, spawning a tornado that ripped the roof off an elementary school, toppled trees and knocked out power. No serious injuries were reported after the twister touched down shortly before 3 p.m. in Hartford, a town of 8,200 people about 25 miles northwest of Milwaukee. City Councilwoman Jacki Lokken said she saw a funnel cloud while driving home from the grocery store. "I was actually driving right in its path," she said. "I drove north a little bit and watched it as it headed southeast. That was the most incredible thing I've ever seen." ...
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| Norway Starts Building Arctic Vault to Preserve World Crop Seeds in Case of Global Catastrophe |
It sounds like something from a science fiction film a doomsday vault carved into a frozen mountainside on a secluded Arctic island ready to serve as a Noah's Ark for seeds in case of a global catastrophe. But Norway's ambitious project is on its way to becoming reality Monday when construction begins on the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, designed to house as many as 3 million of the world's crop seeds. Prime ministers of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland were to attend the cornerstone ceremony on Monday morning near the town of Longyearbyen in Norway's remote Svalbard Islands, roughly 620 miles from the North Pole. Norway's Agriculture Minister Terje Riis-Johansen has called the vault a "Noah's Ark on Svalbard." Its purpose is to ensure the survival of crop diversity in the event of plant epidemics, nuclear war, natural disasters or climate change, and to offer the world a chance to restart growth of food crops that may have been wiped out. ...
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| Sweep Sends Wave of Fear Through San Diego Neighborhood, Home to Thousands of Illegal Immigrants |
Fewer parents are walking their children to school in this border city's Linda Vista neighborhood. The crowd of day laborers huddled in a parking lot outside McDonald's has dropped by half. A sense of unease has spread in this community of weather-worn homes since immigration agents began walking the streets as part of a stepped-up nationwide effort targeting an estimated 590,000 immigrant fugitives. Other illegal immigrants are being rounded up along the way. Juana Osorio, an illegal immigrant from the Mexican state of Oaxaca, said her neighbors have largely stayed indoors since agents visited her apartment complex June 2. "People rarely leave their houses now to go shopping," Osorio, 37, said as she clutched a bottle of laundry detergent in a barren courtyard. "They walk in fear." ...
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| Mansions are blooming in Mexican towns |
Clementina Arellano grew up with her six brothers in a shack in this dusty Mexican hamlet. Now 42, she's raising her sons in a spacious, 10-room mansion with Roman-style pillars at the doorway and a garden full of flowers and singing birds.How did she transform her fortunes so dramatically? By waiting tables and sweating in a furniture factory for about 10 years in Hickory, N.C., and sending home up to $500 a month.Her neighbor, Berta Olgin, lives under a leaky roof, with skinny sheep gnawing at sparse patches of grass in her yard. Her sons all decided to stay in Mexico to work as farmers or laborers, earning about $10 a day.The two women are a vivid illustration of why so many Mexicans head north from this arid valley in central Mexico. Those who make it to the U.S. send dollars to carve out a Mexican dream between gnarled cacti and jagged rocks. Those who stay behind condemn another generation to a life deprived of material privileges....
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