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Death in the Desert
"This story exposes the trafficking and enslavement of African refugees in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula--a lawless place ruled by Bedouin tribes. What CNN's Pleitgen found was not only trafficking and enslavement, but also organ trafficking."
Tags: African refugees; Sinai Peninsula; Bedouin tribes; human trafficking; enslavement; broadcast
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Conflict on the Bench
Evans examined two sitting federal judges, James H. Payne and Terrence Boyle, to determine their independence.Both were nominated by President Bush for higher court seats. Both have conflicts of interest on their bench: they each sat on cases that involved companies in which they owned stock. Judge Payne withdrew his nomination after the stories about him ran.
Tags: federal judge; stock; companies; bench; Boyle; Payne; Bush; Circuit Court of Appeals;
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Salon.com Bush Series
This story is a duplicate. Go to 23221 for the actual file.
Tags: Judge James H. Payne; Judge Terrence Boyle; U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals; Judges; George W. Bush; presidential malfeasance; corruption; buying Judges
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Our Deadly Traffic
The authors investigated why fatality rates on the roads had sky-rocketed in Lee County, FL.
Tags: traffic fatalities; accidents; Department of Transportation; the Florida Highway Patrol; Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles
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Center didn't measure up
This investigation examined why a two-year-old, $8 million hurricane shelter built to withstand winds up to 140 mph collapsed during a hurricane that registered winds of only up to 110 mph. The newspaper found that DeSoto County used a low-bid contractor who lacked certification, failed to use the latest in disaster-resistant design, and appointed the county administrator to oversee the project even though he lacked any construction background, and now the county can't find the engineering documents to prove the building's design and materials should have held up under hurricane-force winds.
Tags: Hurricane Charley; hurricane shelter; hurricane-proof construction; county government
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Building Homes: Building Problems
This set of 14 stories examines recent construction in over 400 central Florida homes. The findings reveal that many of these houses have major flaws in their construction. As WESH-TV reports, these problems are due to subcontractors who hire untrained labor and illegal immigrants.
Tags: Housing; flaws in construction; housing subcontractors; illegal immigrants; tapes; transcript
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Code Blue: Crisis In The E.R.
WESH-TV investigates the problem and causes of long delays in Emergency Room waiting rooms. Understaffing and regulations which require everyone who walks into the E.R. to be seen by a doctor, no matter how sever their injuries, keep waiting times up. Even those that are spend to the E.R. in an ambulance must sometimes wait for hours for actual treatment.
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; emergency room; doctors; hospitals; waiting time
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Kids These Days
Indianapolis Monthly depicts the devoted work of a long-serving judge, James Payne, at the Juvenile Court Complex in Indianapolis. The story looks at some common patterns in juvenile delinquency cases, and draws the conclusion that 'kids will behave if they receive proper guidance." The article quotes statistics that show the average age of youth delinquents has dropped from 15 1/2 to 13 1/2 in recent years. The reporter examines how, according to clinical psychologists, permanent exposure to violence can influence children's minds.
Tags: courts; judges; crime; police; child violence; children; teenagers; guns; weapons; drugs; parental discipline
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Gone
Esquire tells the story of eight Americans who have been kidnapped by guerrillas in Ecuador and kept in the jungles for more than five months. The article reveals that the families of the kidnapped men have been told lies by the negotiators - for example, that hostages would not be harmed. One of the men, Ron Sanders of Missouri, was killed, because the American organizations negotiating with the ninjas failed to achieve a deal on the amount of the ransom to be paid. Kidnapping has become a business in countries like Ecuador, the magazine reports.
Tags: families; Latin America; gringos; Helmerich & Payne; Control Risks Group; Erickson Air-Crane
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The Survivors
A joint investigation by ABC News and New York Times reveals that "one of the most visible attorneys leading the fight against the Swiss banks and German industry had a long history of malpractice claims and disciplinary actions." The report details how Ed Fagan, the attorney "publicly presenting himself as a champion of human rights ... was neglecting the very clients he had promised to help." The stories report on "Mr. Fagan ... asking for four million dollars in fees in the Swiss bank case, more that any other attorney involved at the case," while at the same time he missed the deadline to file his clients' documents before the Swiss Bank Commission. The investigation cites a former Fagan's employee reporting that the attorney ignored hundreds of phone calls and letters from Holocaust victims, as they were trying to clarify their eligibility for settlement money.
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; Nazis; Holocaust; Auschwitz; restitution; law; human rights