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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Several Nobel prize laureates are joining the PEN International writers group in condemning attacks on journalists in Mexico. Mario Vargas Llosa and Toni Morrison are among those participating in a full-page ad in the newspaper El Universal, signed by 170 of the world's most acclaimed writers. It recognizes the courage of journalists in a country were attacks have increased dramatically with drug violence in recent years. Friday's ad says attacks on journalists "impede the ability to live a secure life free of censorship." Attacks on Mexican journalists generally go unprosecuted. Mexico's national human rights commission says 74 journalists were killed from 2000 to 2011....