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A 22-year-old man from Houston and his 16-year-old friend are hauled out of a minivan in Mexico, shot execution style by thugs in a black Lincoln Continental, and left dead in the dirt.

The body of a 65-year-old nurse from Brownsville is found floating in the Rio Grande after a visit to a Mexican beauty salon.

An American retiree, an ex-Marine, is stabbed to death as he camps on a Baja beach with his dog.

More than 200 U.S. citizens have been slain in Mexico’s escalating wave of violence since 2004 — an average of nearly one killing a week, according to a Houston Chronicle investigation into the deaths.

Rarely are the killers captured.

The U.S. State Department tracks most American homicides abroad, but the department releases minimal statistics and doesn’t include victims’ names or details about the deaths. The Chronicle examined hundreds of records to document the personal tragedies behind them.

“I’m no longer the same person,” said Paula Valdez, a Houston mother whose son was slain near her childhood home in Mexico’s Guerrero state in 2004.

More U.S. citizens suffered unnatural deaths in Mexico than in any other foreign country — excluding military killed in combat zones — from 2004 to 2007, State Department statistics show.

Most died in the recent outbreaks of violence in border cities — Tijuana, Ciudad Juarez and Nuevo Laredo.

Although, historically, even Mexico’s most violent urban centers had homicide rates below those of major U.S. cities, recent attacks and border violence driven by drug demand have escalated well beyond limited narco-executions.

Juarez last year ranked among the world’s most murderous cities.

The Chronicle analysis showed some American homicide victims were involved in organized crime. The dead include at least two dozen victims labeled hitmen, drug dealers, human smugglers or gang members, based on published investigators’ accusations. Others were drug users or wanted for crimes in the United States.

But in at least 70 other cases, U.S. citizens appear to have been killed while in Mexico for innocent reasons: visiting family, taking a vacation, or simply living or working there.

Locations and intentions
In an interview with the Chronicle, Mexican Congressman Juan Francisco Rivera Bedoya of Nuevo Leon, a former prosecutor who heads the national Public Safety Commission, said he believes most American victims get killed after crossing the border to participate in illegal activities or venturing into unsafe areas.

“Tourists visiting cathedrals, museums and other cultural centers are not at risk,” he said.

Across Mexico, more than 5,000 lives were taken last year, including police, public officials, journalists and bystanders, with seemingly little regard for age, social status or nationality, Mexican authorities report.

Mutilated bodies have been draped on highway overpasses or posed in schoolyards and public squares. Authorities have uncovered mass graves known as narcofosas and body disposal sites, where killers dissolved corpses in barrels of chemicals.

At least 40 Americans were among those killed and dumped in gruesome methods favored by cartel killers, the Chronicle found. Two Texan teens were victims of an American serial killer in Nuevo Laredo, who bragged to a friend in a recorded cell phone call that he stewed their remains in vats.

Recent border victims include at least 15 U.S.-born children and teenagers.

In 2008, Austin Kane Danielsen, an 18-year-old Kansan visiting Mexico for the first time, was attacked, beaten and kicked after leaving a disco in Matamoros. His attackers used a pickup to drag his brutalized body 30 yards and dumped it next to a railroad track.

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Thanks

A link to an article would be helpfull too.

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Sep
06

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Editor’s Pick More>> SEATTLE (AP) – Nearly two dozen mountaineers and park rangers are searching for the son of Hall of Fame boxing promoter Bob Arum, who’s been missing since a weekend camping trip in the Cascade Mountains of Washington state. Read more on WFMJ Youngstown

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Sorry it’s so long…

It seems like a semi-truck and trailer (or just any vehicle) would use more a lot more gas carrying a full heavy load than carrying no load, right? It makes perfect sense. But this is puzzling me:

If the truck has a more load, it has more mass and then more momentum. So it takes more gas to get trucking moving to like 50 m/h but it would keep rolling for much longer because of momentum. (and with no load, it takes less gas to get to 50 m/h, but it roles for shorter, and so it would take roughly the same amount of gas I assume.)

I know it would still take a bit more gas but only because of extra friction and having to stop and turn on corners, but I want to eliminate those factors and say the truck is moving on a very very long straight highway (to take full advantage of using it’s momentum).
(Now the air resistance won’t matter because the truck has the same shape and size and the friction won’t matter much because it’s only a little bit (plus there’s less friction the faster you go)

So… would a truck carrying a *very heavy load* use the same amount of gas traveling on that highway (elimination those factors) as *carrying no load*?

Sorry for using so much punctuation too lol.

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we have never done very much climbing but a couple be for. we are looking to take the bull of woods route and camp on the summit. we need to know what kind of gear we will need.

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More vacation-from-hell stories from readers A sick world after all Judy Ostrom, Overland Park: Our bad vacation was last summer. We planned a week at Universal Studios with a side trip to Disney’s Magic Kingdom. We arrived on Sunday, and things were great. Then on Monday our 14-year-old daughter started feeling bad, with chills, cough and fever, and we figured we’d tag team our two kids. I’d stay with our daughter at the hotel; my husband … Read more on The Kansas City Star

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Benefit Concert, Farmer’s Market in the Park and more local weekend happenings A “Hot August Nights” benefit concert in honor of Wesley Telsrow will be held from 5 to 10 p.m. Saturday at Kevin Millwood Park in Bessemer City. Telsrow, a 21-year-old Bessemer City/Grover man diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis, is in need of a… Read more on The Gaston Gazette

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Sep
02

Two more Eagles take flight in Roxbury

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Two more Eagles take flight in Roxbury ROXBURY TWP. – Long-time Roxbury Boy Scouts Evan Wasek and Anthony Joseph Carbone have earned the highest rank in Scouting. Read more on Roxbury Register

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The wonders of the Waterloo Recreation Area: Largest park in the Lower Peninsula offers more than you might realize For the Citizen Patriot | Erik HolladayDonald Bright, top, gets help from is son Alex, 7, as they bury Autumn and Destiny, 4, on the beach at Portage Lake. The Family has been coming from Jackson almost everyday during the… Read more on The Jackson Citizen Patriot

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Consultants want more comments on master plan for Natrona County reservoirs Campers at the three reservoirs in Natrona County want longerand wider boat ramps, fish cleaning stations, hazards removed fromthe water, more spaces for bigger recreational vehicles and morespaces for primitive camping, according to informal surveys theycompleted this summer. Read more on Casper Star-Tribune

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