Actress Natasha Richardson Brain Dead: Being transported to New York so mom and 2 kids can say goodbye....

CRITICALLY INJURED IN SKIING ACCIDENT: Richardson, who was being treated at a Montreal hospital, is being transported to New York this afternoon so her mom Vanessa Redgrave, two children and other loved ones can say goodbye before she's taken off life-support, friends said...

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Mexico Drug Wars and Death Spill into the U.S.

Oscar Reynoso was found by police in a home in suburban Atlanta. Authorities say cartel members had chained and tortured Reynoso over a $300,000 drug debt.

Last month federal authorities in Atlanta announced indictments against 41 people they said were trafficking drugs and laundering money for Mexican cartels. Among those netted in Operation Pay Cut were a former deputy sheriff from Texas who was stopped on a Georgia highway with nearly $1 million in cash in his pickup.

PBS Discussion: Drug Cartels

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Is The United States Brain Dead?

The economy of the United States is the largest national economy in the world. Its gross domestic product (GDP) was estimated as $13.8 trillion in 2007.

As of June 2008, the gross U.S. external debt was over $13 trillion, the most external debt of all countries in the world.

Bankrupt, bailout, failures....

Is the U.S. Brain Dead?

In simple terms, brain death is the irreversible end of all brain activity (including involuntary activity necessary to sustain life) due to total necrosis of the cerebral neurons following loss of blood flow and oxygenation.