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Professor Michael Baran...
That slow-footedness gave criminals time to wrap their tentacles around the district, as the city's first high-profile sex-trafficking trial showed this summer. Two German-Turkish brothers, Saban and Hasan Baran, were charged with running a large-scale prostitution operation, assaulting prostitutes and forcing some of them to undergo breast-enlargement operations; they were convicted and sentenced to prison terms in July. Yet despite that victory, law-enforcement officials believe many other criminals are escaping prosecution. "Girls just will not go to the police, in case these men threaten their families at home," says a police officer...
...river, Lancang, means "turbulent.") The only real benefit humans can coax out of this stretch of water is hydroelectric power - and until recently the river's remoteness discouraged even that. "In China, the Mekong is not the same river as it is down in the basin," notes Eric Baran, a research scientist based in Phnom Penh for the nonprofit World Fish Center. "Here in Cambodia, it is a matter of life and death. In China, it is just another river - and not even a very major...
...Assuming his former employer was a fellow undergraduate, Baran got back in touch with Godelia when he had a business idea of his own. About a month and a half ago, they began working together on a start-up called the Jiff Group...
...Needless to say, I was surprised,” Baran said. “You assume a lot of things based on what people are doing. I saw him on campus, and in Lamont, and I didn’t think to ask him, are you really a student? He always presented himself as a Harvard student...