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...safety of the land of Hugo Chávez. Instead, he's like the 2 million or more Colombians who have moved to Venezuela because it offers greater employment opportunities and a more secure social-safety network. Perched on a sofa on the porch of his home in El Aguacate, a barrio outside Caracas, Villanueva is more than happy to be caught in the ideological wrestling match between South America's most polarizing rivals: leftist Chávez and conservative Colombian President Alvaro Uribe...
...final day of qualifiers, Honduras played against El Salvador and needed the United States to tie or defeat Costa Rica in order to advance to the World Cup. Honduras won its match 1-0, with 36-year-old Carlos Pavón providing the lone goal, but the United States quickly fell behind in its game...
There are signs that a shift may be on the way: In January, the city council of El Paso, which borders Mexico’s Ciudad Juarez—arguably the most dangerous city in Mexico—passed a resolution to open up dialogue on an end to drug prohibition in the United States. The resolution was vetoed by the mayor, partly because he was afraid of losing federal funds for the city, but nevertheless achieved the intended effect of raising awareness of the issue...
...when a team of archaeologists from Harvard and the Museum of Fine Arts cracked open a tomb in Deir-el-Bersha, Egypt, they found intricate coffins embedded within each other, 55 wooden boats—each distinctly crafted and painted—and beer. Lots of beer. Scattered in disarray throughout the grave were tiny beer jars representative of their larger, real counterparts, miniature models of breweries, and wooden slave figures with the drink balanced on their heads. Apparently, eternal thirst was not an attractive option for the Ancient Egyptians...
...Mubarak on the sidelines of the G-8 summit in Italy in July. Given the outcry over the earlier lack of publicity, Alex W.'s trial is now receiving extensive coverage in the country. German political leaders are also nervously watching the proceedings. "Politicians regarded the murder of Marwa el-Sherbini as a foreign policy issue, but it was really an internal matter," Ali Kizilkaya, head of the Islamic Council of Germany, tells TIME. "The case shows that a small part of German society is Islamophobic, and that shouldn't be underestimated. Politicians have to learn that Muslims must...