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...alone, an increase of 79% over 2007. With some victims as young as 13, most cases involved women, though experts estimate that 15% of cases worldwide may involve men marrying as a result of family pressure. "We're definitely getting more calls than normal," says FCO spokesman Nick Branch. Branch says most of the unit's cases this year involved families from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh...
...scandal-ridden of the federal government - is a disaster. The Bush Administration stuffed the department with former industry lobbyists who kowtowed to miners and loggers, eviscerated environmental protections like the Endangered Species Act and actively ignored recommendations by the department's scientists. Worse, the Mineral Management Service (MMS) - a branch of Interior that collects royalties from energy industry work on federal lands - was hit this year with a massive scandal. MMS employees received thousands of dollars of gifts from the energy companies they were supposed to be policing; several officials were accused of using drugs at industry functions and even...
Atlanta Scene. Top Chef judge Tom Colicchio opened a branch of his fashionable restaurant, Craft, in Atlanta on Dec. 8. Other locations serving Colicchio's simple, elegant fare are in New York City, Los Angeles and Dallas. We recommend you sample his roasted quail and hen of the woods mushrooms. 376 Peachtree Road N.E., Atlanta...
...arrests are unlikely to mollify India, however; New Delhi is demanding more evidence that Islamabad is serious about withdrawing support for militants. "They need to show us that this time it will not be a farce," says B. Raman, former head of the counterterrorism branch of the Research and Analysis Wing, India's equivalent of the CIA. "They should either deport those accused of the Mumbai attacks or allow an Indian police team to visit Pakistan and interrogate them." But the Pakistani military and intelligence services are reluctant to comply. In the past, they have used groups like Lashkar...
Bagels from the Boston-based Finagle A Bagel, which has a branch in Harvard Square, will be served in dining halls now that the company has reentered the wholesale market...