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Ex-Klansman Killen Released From Jail

PHILADELPHIA, Miss. – Edgar Ray Killen (search) was released from a Mississippi jail Friday after posting $600,000 bond while he appeals his manslaughter convictions in the 1964 killings of three civil rights workers. The 80-year-old one-time Ku Klux Klansman, wearing street clothes, sandals and a felt cowboy hat, appeared to …

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Scientist: Brazil Mulled An Atom Bomb

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil – Brazil’s (search) military continued work on an atomic bomb after it was ordered to scrap the program in 1985 and by 1990 had nearly finished building one, a leading nuclear scientist said. Jose Luiz Santana (search), the former president of Brazil’s nuclear energy commission, known …

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Staggering Loads

Which fund charges the highest load? QUESTION: Which fund charges the highest load? Do they actually go up to 9% as per the criteria in the SmartMoney.com Fund Finder? ANSWER: That’s no typo — some funds really do charge investors exorbitant sales charges. Fortunately, however, such burdensome loads are the …

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