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...smuggled across the border. After convincing them that he did not need their services, De Beausset drove with the men to various buildings that he believes were migrant safehouses. “It looked like a pigsty,” he says. “They give you a carpet. The bottom levels were just filled with people.”Back in the van, De Beausset said he was an American journalist and demanded to be taken to a hotel. But the men refused and instead made a swipe at his wallet. After a struggle, De Beausset jumped from...
...nurse convinced Safah that she could be killed over the shame her disappearance had brought to her family. The nurse offered to adopt her. But official channels would have taken too long, so the nurse told Safah to hold her lower-right abdomen, scream and writhe on the carpet of the orphanage director's office, pretending to have appendicitis and requiring emergency medical assistance. Once at the hospital, the nurse whisked Safah into a waiting...
...Rogers, 31, were activists long before launching OZOcar. Harris, former chairman of Virgin Records in the U.S., lives in a solar-powered house. In 1991 he co-founded Rock the Vote to get young people involved in politics, and in 2002 he organized Green Car to the Red Carpet, persuading Oscars-bound celebs to swap their limos for hybrids. Meanwhile, Rogers was doing relief work with UNICEF in Sudan and later founded the socially conscious film company Drive Thru Pictures. The duo hopes to drive OZOcar into other cities, starting with London this fall...
...containing hydrocarbons," says Kevin Plintz, a Canadian geophysicist who owns Terra Seis. That wasn't too surprising in Tawke, where generations have watched oil seep out on the surrounding hills and turn to a slick black film in the gnawing winter cold. Sitting cross-legged on his living-room carpet over a lunch of mutton, village chief Tahir Ezeer Omar remembers that when he was 10, a German visitor told his grandfather that the oil in the hills "was like gold, that it would someday create wealth for us." The locals were unimpressed. "All we knew was that the sheep...
...changed a bit,” she says affectionately when she finds an image of Tunes dressed for the red carpet. “That’s that same smile...