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...Palestinians in subsequent clashes in the Gaza Strip. The U.S. blocked a U.N. Security Council resolution calling for international observers to help end the conflict, while U.S. President George W. Bush blamed Arafat for failing to stop the violence and called on Israel to use restraint. But fierce clashes broke out again Friday as thousands of Arab citizens took to the streets for annual "Land Day" protests against the killing of Palestinians opposed to Israel's land policies...
...UNITED STATES Porn Ring Broken Four Americans and five Russians were arrested after a year-long investigation into the sale of child pornography over the Internet. U.S. officials broke up the pedophile ring, which operated the Blue Orchid website, after posing as customers for the videos advertised. The men arrested are charged with producing and distributing the videos, which show Russian boys, some as young as eight years old, being sexually abused...
...convoy of foreign aid workers was caught up in factional fighting in northern Mogadishu as they left the compound of the humanitarian agency Médecins sans Frontières. Supporters of warlord Muse Sudi Yalahow captured nine, along with two local workers, and held them hostage. Fighting then broke out between factions in Muse Sudi's group. U.N. negotiators obtained the release of seven foreign workers and two Somalis...
...next afternoon, however, all the promise of the previous evening has escaped from the neighborhood like so much exhaled smoke. Jacky's customer lost interest and found another girl. Even the bike racing fell apart after the cops broke up the first few rallying points. And now, on a hazy, rainy Sunday, Jacky and a few of the girls are back in her hut. They're smoking, almost desperately uploading as much speed as possible to ward off this drab day and this squalid place...
Georgia began its pioneering efforts to legislate against bullying after two school tragedies. In 1994 Brian Head, a chubby, bespectacled 15-year-old who had been taunted for years, broke when a classmate at Etowah High School in Woodstock slapped him. He shouted, "I can't take it anymore!," pulled out a gun and shot himself in the head. Four years later, Josh Belluardo was punched in the head--and killed--by a bully who also attended Etowah. The next year, Georgia passed a three-strikes-and-you're-out policy. After three bullying offenses, middle and high school students...