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...Until the homeboy invasion, local gangs got by with knives or primitive steel-pipe guns. They got drunk and maybe smoked a little grass. But that all changed under the deportees' murderous influence. The pipe guns were replaced with AK-47s and Uzis, and the marijuana with crack, which in San Pedro Sula sells for only $4.25 a "rock." Now, gang members aspire to have a teardrop tattooed on their cheek, to signify they've killed a rival. The new-look gangs quickly began shaking down grocery shops, factory girls and bus passengers for "taxes." They hijacked buses for drive...
...bicycles. All smiled. ''There's an old French fort on top of a mountain up here,'' said Dave. ''It was an ugly place to be.'' We stopped, looked at a few thousand bullet holes. On through Phu Bai, gone back now to rice paddies and oxen and lacerating elephant grass. Next, lovely old Hue; there the monks have enshrined the Austin that in 1963 carried one of their number to what was then Saigon, where he immolated himself (a photograph of the fiery moment was stuck on the grille). Then out on the Perfume River in a rented boat...
...Washington and on the radio talk-show circuit are raising basic questions about the very existence of a detailed plan. In fact, there is a broad program, and constituencies that oppose it are using the current void to make their case. The Health Insurance Association of America and its grass-roots allies last week began running a TV commercial that shows a couple studying a summary of the plan. The husband concludes that the goal of setting a national ceiling on health-care spending could end up cutting off benefits to individuals. The wife, looking stricken, replies, ''There...
...young painter did at the end of World War I -- that the French avant-garde set a standard against which his own burgeoning inventiveness could be tested. But it is significant that when he finally got there in 1921, he took with him a handful of dried grass from Montroig as a talisman of memory, to help him with the big painting he rightly considered his first masterpiece: The Farm. Frontal as a nursery ark, bathed in the raking dreamlight of early morning and constructed with the geometrical clarity of a Renaissance townscape, this was Miro's summation of memory...
...which, Edwards argues, not only diminishes the worth of trademark protection in the Internet age, but also discourages grass-roots entrepreneurship. "Our best inventions have usually come from the little guy," says Edwards. "I see this trend dissuading them." If she's right, it would be one more example of how the Internet promises us everything except accountability...