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...factor yet: the bummer economy. Advocates say that if state or local governments could collect a tax on even a fraction of pot sales, it would help rescue cash-strapped communities. Not surprisingly, the idea is getting traction in California, home to the nation's largest supply of domestically grown marijuana (worth an estimated $14 billion a year) and biggest state budget deficit (more than $26 billion...
...less than 15 years, blogging has exploded. Once a raft of small projects started by a few pioneering individuals, it has grown into a massive communication tool used by casual hobbyists and media behemoths alike. Blogs have evolved so much that the word has all but lost its meaning, serving as a catchall for nearly any online communication...
TIME: How is it that so many people can have so many disparate views, and such extreme ones, of the same country? Tsvangirai: Some extremists have understandable concerns. If I had grown up in privileged society because of my race, I would probably like to protect that. You feel nostalgia for the past and forget the reality of the present. And there's the other extreme: let's burn down the buildings to cross out the past. That's unacceptable. It's self-destructive. The middle ground is where the majority is. The majority of people are not ideological. They...
...season has progressed, the weekend contests have grown no less popular, boasting large crowds at Beren Tennis Center and Weld Boathouse last weekend for the tennis tournament and river run, respectively. The tennis matches featured over 50 players of various skill levels, sorted into four singles brackets (two men’s and two women’s) and a doubles draw. While the most talented players may have competed in singles, the highlight of the weekend played out in an epic doubles draw, where a certain strikingly handsome and talented Crimson sports editor and one of his proctees claimed...
...Calabrian Mob, which began to accumulate wealth in the 1970s and 1980s through kidnapping and extortion, has grown exponentially in the past five years as it has teamed up with Colombian cocaine producers. The "Massacre of Ferragosto," the gangland killing of six young Calabrian men one August night in 2007, in Duisburg, Germany, was the bloodiest sign that the crime syndicate was spreading its influence across the continent...