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...leading African connection in this growing global network is Guinea-Bissau. The fifth poorest country in the world was perfectly suited to playing a key role in the coke trade. The average person in this country of 1.6 million people earns about $720 a year and dies at 45. The capital, Bissau, is a decrepit relic on which the government has not slapped a lick of paint since the Portuguese colonials decamped in the 1970s. There are few phone lines and almost no electricity. Even the President's office building has a generator roaring outside. The judicial police headquarters...
...Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter series, the British actress believably delivers goody-goody lines like, "I'm going to bed before either of you comes up with another clever idea to get us killed, or worse, expelled!" New projects: The Potter series has Watson booked till 2010. The fifth movie, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, is due in July. Good girl factoid: During the filming of Prisoner of Azkaban, Watson put director Alfonso Cuaron's Hair in pigtails...
...Fifth Third Bancorp...
...numbers are substantial--and will grow as more troops return home. Complaints under the 1994 act have increased steadily, to more than 1,500 in 2006 from about 800 in 2001. Some have become lawsuits, and employers may have tried to steer many toward arbitration, since about one-fifth of U.S. companies require the procedure for workplace disputes. In defense of employers, it's not easy reserving jobs for workers called to active duty. But Congress judged that the cost was worth the peace of mind of citizen soldiers, willing to sacrifice their time and perhaps lives to the military...
...while the pill doesn’t cause sex—over a fifth of teens don’t even use contraception their first time—it does place control over the consequences of sex more firmly in the hands of the woman who risks pregnancy. Currently, the pill’s prescription status imposes a significant cost on women who want to be responsible for their own sex lives. According to Institute For Women, the pill’s prescription status costs women approximately $695.3 million in pill-related doctor’s appointments per year, which...