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ROBERT DOWNEY JR. The Academy Award-nominated actor has been arrested for cocaine and heroin possession. His ads for Skechers shoes started running in magazines like Rolling Stone in April...
...Cigarettes, for one thing, are spectacularly addictive - as addictive, some scientists maintain, as heroin. And addiction is a difficult, though not impossible, straightjacket to escape. Quarter Pounders with cheese, on the other hand, are not addictive. They may be awfully tasty, and a convenient source of calories, but biting into a cheeseburger does not create a chemical hook in people's brains that keeps luring them back. Even Barber admits his choice to eat fast food was based on free will, telling the AP he started eating fast food in the 1950s because it was "cheap and efficient...
...Given the tough crackdown, you would expect Singlish to be a harmful substance that might corrupt our youth, like heroin or pornography. But it's one of Singapore's best-loved quirks, used daily by everyone from cabbies to CEOs. Singlish is simply Singaporean slang, whereby English follows Chinese grammar and is liberally sprinkled with words from the local Chinese, Malay and Indian dialects. Take jiat gentang, which combines the Hokkien word for "eat" (jiat), with the Malay word for "potato" (gentang). Jiat gentang describes someone who speaks with a pretentious Western accent (since potatoes are considered a European food...
...most combustible areas. The Thai-Burmese border is home to dozens of tribal groups whose conflicts, hatreds and alliances are so complex and layered as to be nearly unfathomable. Some want an independent state, others merely the independence to fund their wars against Rangoon or each other by trafficking heroin, opium and amphetamines. Both the Burmese and the Thais use these rebels as proxy warriors against each other. But army border units from the two sides are also known to cooperate to make money from illegal logging and mining. With so many vested interests and rival agendas, it's hard...
...deserted highway; a man stands there with a sheep. He flags down a taxi; he and his sheep get in. This man, a Muslim, complains to the driver that "the Russians think anyone with dark skin is a bandit." Turns out he's not a bandit; he's a heroin dealer. But then, in this dark, delicious comedy everyone is a crook: the ex-con hero, his "dying" mother and the village mayor who acts as if he's Vito Corleone. Creative chicanery: that's capitalism, Third World-style. If films weren't overtly political, they were insistently social. Some...