Word: beaten
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ROSAMARIA VALERIANO FLORES, a Honduran who was beaten while passing through a demonstration in Tegucigalpa held in support of Manuel Zelaya, the country's ousted President...
Four Chicago teens have been arrested in the murder of Derrion Albert, a 16-year-old who was beaten to death on Sept. 24 after he stumbled onto a brawl between rival gangs on his way home from school. The attack, captured by a cell-phone camera, has ignited outrage in a city that witnessed the murders of 34 public-school students last year...
...single-lane heritage routes that wend desolately through the countryside: turn them green. Superseded by high-speed interstates, many of these narrow byways have been long forgotten, along with the faded small towns they connect, says Gallagher, a project manager for the Southwest Michigan Planning Commission. But off-the-beaten-path America could be revived, she says, by transforming little-used roadways into "green highways" that cater specifically to electric-vehicle drivers and other slow-moving, eco-minded tourists traveling by bicycle or on foot...
...Yemen, still runs articles encouraging adventurous tourists to visit the coffee-growing region in the country's north, its terraced hilltop villages a vision of Old Arabia, and the fabled eastern valleys that were once home to the Queen of Sheba. But anyone trying to get off the beaten track in Yemen these days may find a bit too much adventure. About two-thirds of the country is out of government control and in the hands of either separatist groups or local tribes, some of which have a habit of kidnapping foreign tourists to use as bargaining chips in disputes...
...from tweeting as other people in a misguided effort to boost the party (one posed as an MP, the other as an official Labour outlet). @lordmandelson, a fake version of Business Secretary Lord Mandelson, has also suspended activities. The Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, who now tweets as @DMiliband, was beaten in the race to join Twitter by an impostor whose elegiac tweet on Michael Jackson's death was widely quoted by credulous media. "So far it's all been quite amusing," says McCarthy. "David Miliband talking about Michael Jackson's death isn't going to cause a foreign policy crisis...