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...shipped out of the former communist countries of Eastern Europe and the old Soviet Union into Western Europe and North America each year, most of them to work in brothels and nightclubs against their will, according to the International Organization for Migration (iom). The region is the fastest-growing point of origin for the trafficking in women for sexual purposes, a modern form of slavery dubbed "one of the most disgraceful faces" of contemporary society by the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights, an organization that has seen its share of disgraceful practices...
...Valencia has 12 roller coasters, but it plans to spend $30 million this year to add three more. "We'll have more roller coasters in one place than anywhere else on this planet," promises spokesperson Amy Means. Six Flags currently boasts, among other superlatives, the tallest (415 ft.) and fastest (100 m.p.h.) coasters in the world. And over at Universal Studios Hollywood, which is planning new attractions around a live Rug Rats entertainment show and the Animal Planet TV show, officials lined up a deal to provide free round-trip transportation for Disneyland guests to Universal, less than an hour...
...theory, the 200 free relay's outcome indicates that the 12th fastest Harvard swimmer, excluding the seniors that stayed behind, was faster than even the best Dartmouth "A" team member...
...testing even when they fall ill. And many men who suspect they are HIV positive embrace a flawed logic: if I'm already infected, I can sleep around because I can't get it again. But women are the ones who progress to full-blown AIDS first and die fastest, and the underlying cause is not just sex but power. Wives and girlfriends and even prostitutes in this part of the world can't easily say no to sex on a man's terms. It matters little what comes into play, whether it is culture or tradition or the pathology...
...cans, stashed in garages or forgotten in closets. Some 500 million PCs will be rendered obsolete by 2007 in the U.S. alone--abandoned by users who have upgraded to faster and sexier machines--according to a report by the National Safety Council. Computers are ranked as the nation's fastest-growing category of solid waste by the Environmental Protection Agency...