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Money-laundering is an attendant crime. But so is trafficking in undocumented migrant workers. A single marijuana growing operation can consist of a dozen homes or more, requiring many hands to tend to the plants. And when arrests are made, those taken in are often neither the homeowner nor the person named on the lease. The actual operators usually elude capture. Still, workers are lured by the promise of a piece of the profits and rent-free living, sometimes raising children among the deadly high-voltage lights and other potential life-threatening apparatuses associated with indoor marijuana. (Read "Is Marijuana...
...Among a dozen likely protesters interviewed in Tehran, most of whom were recent university students, the picture that emerged was one of intense dissatisfaction with the theocratic regime, a system forcing its strict religious codes on a progressively more secular youth population. But many of them do not desire regime change or welcome the violence that would surround such a revolution. Many recall that their parents suffered through such chaos in the run-up to the 1979 Islamic revolution (coincidentally fueled by gatherings commemorating the 40-day anniversaries of those killed in street clashes). Nor do today's young protesters...
...Twitter. Because nothing spells commitment like 140 characters of lucid, compelling argument, there's a new Tweet Your Senator page on BarackObama.com, the website maintained by the Democratic National Committee. Here, you can log-in and send one of a half a dozen or so prewritten tweets to your state's Senators. And for your trouble, you get to see your picture and tweet pop up on a map of the U.S. Shiny! (Follow TIME on Twitter...
Even for the most visible Twittering Senator, @SenJohnMccain, the messages don't seem to be making much of an impact. Only a few dozen people have used the Twitter map to send their thoughts to McCain, and he responded with a tweet of his own: "According to Rasmussen, 52% of AZ voters oppose the current Health care reform plan - I agree, we need the right reform." Tweets clearly aren't changing any hearts or minds there...
...also features a guesthouse and charity school. And if you can pull yourself from your porch, rent a bicycle or go caving deep below the valley's jagged karst mountains - Green Discovery, (856-21) 264 528, sells tours. They're a lot more strenuous than knocking back a half-dozen vodka-jelly shots but ultimately more rewarding...