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...officers arrested Charles Hautzenrader II, age unknown, for assault and battery by means of a chain and for disorderly conduct on the corner of Mt. Auburn and Dunster...
...figures are appalling, and yet they seem, somehow, to have lost their ability to move us. That may be changing, slowly, as more and more women come forward to challenge what has become the biggest open secret in the American workplace. Big chain stores Publix and the Home Depot have shelled out a combined $180 million to settle female employee wage discrimination claims; Wal-Mart is currently facing a discrimination suit...
...Other outlets across China are feeling the sting. Shanghai Weekend was yellow carded for running a suggestive photo of a woman's body on its cover. The government fined and nearly closed China's biggest private bookstore chain, Xishu Publishing, for selling a tract on dissident poets. And Guangzhou Television sacked its top three editors when someone ran subtitles under images of Premier Zhu Rongji reading, "Former follower of Falun Gong," the banned spiritual practice. The foreign press has suffered, too. For the past 16 weeks, China has banned newsstand sales of TIME after the magazine published an article...
...decade ago, he was peddling pork on the streets of Guadalajara. Today his Mexican nutritional-supplement business, Grupo Omnilife, boasts yearly sales of $600 million and distributors in 10 countries. Last month Vergara, 45, ended his attempt to buy the Body Shop beauty chain. That leaves him more cash for his pet project under construction in Guadalajara, a $440 million complex with 10 world-recognized architects on staff...
...culinary item in Thailand. Middle-class Thais in Bangkok are buzzing over the exoskeletal treats: "They have a rich texture, and the flavors are like nothing you've ever tasted," says Nusara Thaitawat, a former journalist and the author of Cuisine of Cambodia. And the business is creating a chain of modest wealth for farmers and sellers, making insects a commodity distributed across Thailand as efficiently as, say, artichokes in California. Tongchart supplies wholesalers as far north as Chiang Rai and as far south as Hat Yai. Some of them, in turn, are exporting to places like Hong Kong, Japan...