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...Until the homeboy invasion, local gangs got by with knives or primitive steel-pipe guns. They got drunk and maybe smoked a little grass. But that all changed under the deportees' murderous influence. The pipe guns were replaced with AK-47s and Uzis, and the marijuana with crack, which in San Pedro Sula sells for only $4.25 a "rock." Now, gang members aspire to have a teardrop tattooed on their cheek, to signify they've killed a rival. The new-look gangs quickly began shaking down grocery shops, factory girls and bus passengers for "taxes." They hijacked buses for drive...
...rise, partly because families spend less time together, which leaves boys fewer outlets for productive communication. "It's a national epidemic," he says. "Both the amount of teasing and the intensity of it have increased over time, and the stakes are higher. We're talking AK-47s now, not just a shove." While Espelage acknowledges that it is difficult to know whether bullying is growing more common, she says that recognition of its consequences is certainly on the rise. Both agree that while bullying has been around since the one-room schoolhouse, it should no longer be dismissed...
...official student press--but to no avail. We were barricaded in pen built for large sows and forced to watch the revelers behind the wall. After about 10 seconds of looking at Gore's chiseled chin, we chatted with the drug-sniffing dog, proffered our handbags filled with AK-47s to the secret service and left. Only to bump into some men dressed as pigs. We think they were protesting porkbarrel spending...
Saddam's other "enemy" lives 2,000 miles away in an 18th century town house on London's fashionable Cavendish Square. It looks more like the corporate digs of a leveraged-buyout firm than the headquarters of a guerrilla movement. Instead of AK-47s and Molotov cocktails, No. 17 Cavendish Square boasts fully equipped offices with ergonomic furniture, fresh-cut flowers and expensive prints hanging on the walls. For a suite on its second floor, the U.S. State Department pays more than $200 a sq. ft. annually, according to documents obtained by TIME--double what most empty modern office space...
They brought us back to the village where more rebels--I counted 36--were holding five others: two women, two children and an old man. All of the rebels were carrying AK-47s, and some had rocket-propelled grenades. They were mostly about 35 or 40, but some were in their 20s. They looked untidy, as if they had been in the bush for a long time...