Two members of a secretive German colony in Chile were indicted on charges that they administered shocks and psychiatric drugs to eight children.The two were Paul Schaefer, 84, Dignity Colony's former leader, and Gisela Gruhlke, 75, a doctor at the enclave about 210 miles south of Santiago. BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan In a holiday season pep talk to U.S troops, Defense Secretary Donald H. I loved the replica of a traditional Valencian kitchen, with its old cooking utensils and walls covered in predominantly blue and white glazed azulejo tile.Blazing floatsFOR the best of all worlds, though, come to Valencia from March 15 to 19, when Las Fallas fever grips the city, and perfectly sane people set off firecrackers on the sidewalks and gleefully watch each blazing falla.Only hours after arriving from Los Angeles, I was at the Convento de Jerusalen to see my first falla, an Egyptian fantasy 88 feet tall, complete with a comical pharaoh with a virility problem, a few eunuchs, Cleopatra in her bath, Nubian slaves, a Nile barge, sphinxes and an asp.Like many fallas, it had been a year in the making -- and cost the neighborhood association that sponsored it about $290,000. Altogether, such programs affect the care of 53 million patients across the country.The move to raise the level of performance-based pay in California reflects a growing consensus that small bonuses are not enough, Baker said."In order to change behavior, the numbers we're seeing in other health plans are anywhere between 5% and 10%" of overall pay, he said. Whether it's the film "Children of Men" or Cormac McCarthy's bleak novel "The Road" (the latest choice for Oprah's increasingly hard-bitten book club), we seem to be stuck in an apocalyptic mood.While those fears creep in around the edges of "Open House," much of the show carries the antiseptic, confident feel that has marked so many past efforts to imagine the house of the future. After she refused, she said, she had to repeat the class twice, along with four other female students who spurned the professor's advances."Even my parents didn't want to help with the problem," she said. In China, shortages of state-subsidized fuel have caused long gas lines and piracy.

He played college basketball at the Air Force Academy and learned to fly in the military. LIMA, Peru Archeologists have uncovered a 600-year-old underground cemetery belonging to a Peruvian warrior culture, an official said this week.After a tip from a farmer in Peru's northern Amazon jungle, archeologists from Peru's National Culture Institute last week found the 820-foot-deep cave used for burial and worship by the Chachapoyas people.Archeologists have found five mummies, two of which are intact with skin and hair, as well as ceramics, textiles and wall paintings, said the expedition's leader, Herman Corbera."This is a discovery of transcendental importance. It has been cited repeatedly in the last decade for dozens of alleged building code violations.Tenants say the building has been plagued by power outages, backed-up plumbing, holes in the walls and an elevator that works only sporadically."It's no good," said Sonny Reece, who has lived there for eight years. Energy drinks also should keep enjoying strong demand because their appeal is spreading to different types of consumers, he said.The drinks initially were mostly bought by men 18 to 30 years old, especially at night, when the drinks also are used as cocktail mixers, Sacks said. Torres, as agents behind him stacked some of the more than 2,000 weapons that were being removed from the gun store.Torres said Boulevard Sales and Service guns had been sold to members of gangs such as the Compton Crips and Fruit Town Pirus.Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca and top Los Angeles Police Department officials called the Compton sting a starting point in their plan to aggressively shut down gun retailers whose weapons disproportionately end up being used by gang members, an effort that they said would be a cornerstone of their joint anti-gang campaign that was launched earlier this year."Today is a new day in our effort to tell gang members your efforts to acquire guns will be reduced," said Baca, who vowed to continue to trace weapons that are recovered by his deputies and investigate high-volume sources of such guns His department had not used that tactic in the past..

At a news conference in South Korea on Thursday, Bush denied he was challenging the patriotism of his critics, but reasserted his initial criticism.It is "patriotic as heck to disagree with the president," Bush said "It doesn't bother me. This month they met with executives from Universal Pictures, DreamWorks Animation and Cartoon Network to discuss future projects.On Oscar night, the Riva Palacio brothers intend to cheer on their Mexican compatriots. "I'm just excited about going and playing another Pac-10 game in a great environment."*Smith participated in most of the workout, but he said he still wasn't 100% and sat out scrimmage drills at the end so he would not aggravate sore ankle ligaments.Carroll said he was continuing to push freshman receiver Travon Patterson."I've been on him hard to make his plays and focus in practice and be consistent out here," Carroll said. As far back as his days as a bishop in Lusaka, the Zambian capital, in the 1970s, he conducted raucous healing Masses and public exorcisms that made church officials uncomfortable. A dispute with his landlord ultimately got Colby and his wife, Loren, evicted from their central Fresno apartment.They moved in with relatives, then with friends, then to the shelter. "We are not in a position to be able to offer basketball for a year."Hornet owner George Shinn told the Charlotte Observer on Friday that he had been approached by Anaheim, San Diego, Oklahoma City, Kansas City, Mo., and St Petersburg, Fla.