Word: ganges
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...place in two countries, netting nearly 80 alleged mobsters in New York and Sicily. Spanning the Atlantic, the joint FBI-Italian police action was dubbed the "Old Bridge." But the name isn't simply a bit of bureaucratic poetry: it is a reference to the conclusion of a brutal gang war that saw the losers flee to America two decades ago to avoid extermination. And now, just when some of the exiles thought it was safe to go back across the water, the authorities have swept them...
...Mike Huckabee [AL, AR, GA, TN, WV] did far better than expected, which is mostly because he was not expected to do much of anything. West Virginia landed in his corner after McCain supporters, coming in third in the caucus, decided to gang up against Romney. But victories in Alabama, Tennessee and Georgia, as well as a strong showing in Missouri, proved that his southern appeal is enough to keep him in the race - for the moment. The challenge, and it is significant, will be for Huckabee to turn himself into something more than a regional favorite...
...WHAT IT OFFERS ... AND WHY WE LIKE IT TELETUBBIES: bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/teletubbies Gentle, charming animated games featuring you-know-who They?re funny, educational and well designed for little hands. They reward success but don?t punish failure PBS KIDS: pbskids.org Simple games starring the Sesame Street gang, Barney and others A bright, friendly site with tons of options?maybe too many. But like it or not, kids love those characters POISSON ROUGE: poissonrouge.com Quirky, elegant, dreamlike amusements They?re funny, educational and well designed for little hands. They reward success but don?t punish failure
...That's quite a turnaround from the doomsday predictions made in the early '90s. It was less than two decades ago that the country's crime wizards were warning of a unprecedented, bloody spike as a super-predator generation - kids armed with equally menacing weapons and attitudes - inflamed gang and drug wars; murders hit over 2,000 in New York and nearly 1,000 in Chicago during the early 1990s. Many theories for the decline over the past decade and more have been floated; from the Freakonomics suggestion that legalizing abortion effectively wiped out a population of would-be criminals...
...this job 30 years," Limon says. "What we're seeing is incredible, but I'm not surprised. We've improved the process. We're working with area suburbs, we go after the worst in the worst areas. But if I had the crystal ball, we could focus on these gang-related murders and work on prevention and intervention in the areas involved. If we move in that direction, going after the juvenile crime harder, we're going to see more of a drop...