* Roughly 16,272 murders were committed in the United States during 2008. Of these, about 10,886 or 67% were committed with firearms.[11]

Previously unreported details, documented in Massachusetts corporate filings and other public records, show that Bain Capital was enmeshed in the largely opaque world of international high finance from its very inception.

There is controversy about climate change...  Yet, the serious scientists in both camps have clearly established that the surface of the earth has been warming up...

This warming is estimated at a certain amount (0.1 degrees C average) per decade (now around 0.2 degree C) for the last 150 years... Gus' present estimate is for a full one (1) degree C increase for the next 10 year. I could be wrong, but considering the sun is awakening and El Nino is about to come back, I may be right.