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...dance-battle scene is also seeing a growing number of women warriors. "There's a lot of pressure with all the people watching and having your reputation on the line," says Maryss, 23, a West Coast-based dancer who frequently participates in competitions at clubs. "[But] even if you do something whack, the crowd will support...
...Broken Truce? IVORY COAST Former rebels and the opposition withdrew from the power-sharing government after 25 people were killed in clashes between security forces and demonstrators protesting President Laurent Gbagbo's failure to fully implement a January, 2003 peace agreement that had ended five months of civil war. Gbagbo's government called the protests an "armed revolt"; the opposition said it was a peaceful march...
...roads; it is the first demonstration of how America will protect its citizens in a new kind of war. Bogged down in emotion and opportunism, the debate is leading to dangerous gaps in the preparedness of our most vulnerable communities. Says Stephen E. Flynn, a former U.S. Coast Guard commander and director of a homeland-security task force chaired by Gary Hart and Warren Rudman: "At the end of the day, blowing off New York and L.A. so that you can make sure Wyoming is safe just makes no sense...
Massino, 61, has other legitimate businesses (Cafe Via Vento, in Maspeth) and properties (in Queens and Palm Coast, Fla.), but his favorite is the CasaBlanca. From that neighborhood ristorante, he has allegedly run an operation that, the feds assert, includes extortion, loan sharking, illegal gambling, narcotics and murder in a vast criminal empire whose tentacles stretch up into Canada and back to the Sicilian motherland. Investigators say he certified his power in 2000, when he convened a meeting of four of the Five Families, at--where else?--the CasaBlanca...
Think Trinidad and the image that comes to mind is carnival. But far more exotic than the antics of Mardi Gras are the nocturnal activities now getting under way on the sandy beaches of the island's northeastern coast. Every year from March to August, hundreds of giant leatherback turtles - the world's largest reptiles - heave themselves out of the sea to lay and bury eggs on the beach before returning to their tireless traversal of the world's oceans. Two months later tiny hatchlings dig their way out of the sand and head for the sea to continue...