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Shooters broke into the house in a mountainous area known as Sierra Negra early on Friday morning and killed five women, four men and two girls, before fleeing on foot, according to the state attorney general's office. Two other girls with chest and stomach wounds were taken to a hospital in nearby Tehuacan. Vicente Lopez de la Vega, a mayor from the city of Coxcatlan, said it was not immediately clear if the shooting was the result of a family feud or organized crime.

SIERRA NEGRA, Mexico — Skinny dogs, rattlesnakes and burros roaming the ridges of this long-dormant volcano know something is afoot, though there hasn't been an eruption here in centuries. What causes locals to stir, and scientists to salivate, is a 17-story monster of a telescope being assembled atop this 15,000-foot peak. It is a giant time machine, probing the origins of the universe with an antenna dish the size of a baseball infield. It looks like a space-age windmill, with two U-shaped steel arms to hold up a giant satellite dish. It will be the largest millimeter-wave radio telescope in...