Pensions for all? For today's captains of industry, the maxim in a crisis seems to be: "To hell with the women and children -- save the lifeboats for us!" Salon

Dead man walking home
Joseph Amrine, a man who spent 18 years on death row for the murder of a fellow prisoner, and whose face was made famous in a Benneton ad, is going home. After years of appeals and execution dates, a period in which he saw the witnesses against him recant their testimony to no legal effect, the 47-year-old's life has been spared in a surprise ruling by the Missouri Supreme Court, which said, among other things: "It is difficult to imagine a more manifestly unjust and unconstitutional result than permitting the execution of an innocent person." Salon

First tests don't match boy found in Illinois Initial tests failed to show whether a boy left at a suburban hospital was the same boy who has been missing from his North Carolina home more than two years, the FBI said Wednesday. Salon