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...National Park and the Grand Canyon - although it has become fairly well known itself, since it became the subject of the National Geographic Channel series Dogtown, and since it took in fighting dogs owned by professional football player Michael Vick, who was sentenced in 2007 to 23 months in jail for his role in a dogfighting ring. Visitors can take dogs - and potbellied pigs! - for walks, feed horses or tend to rabbits. You can stop in for the day, or stay longer, sleeping in a handful of cabins on the grounds. If you're planning to catch some of Utah...
...seen as the one advocate for Pashtuns inside the internal security services. "The Tajiks could be heavy-handed sometimes, going around arresting Pashtuns without much cause, and Laghmani was their sole defender," a source close to Afghan President Hamid Karzai told TIME. "He'd get them out of jail before much harm was done...
...things we recognized is that you can't arrest your way out of gang type situations," says Police Superintendant Paul Joyce, who ran Boston's program into the mid-'90s. "We implemented the strategy of emphasizing to kids that we didn't want to toss them in jail, but that violence would not be tolerated." The city had a record 152 homicides in 1990, just before it implemented Scrap Iron in a targeted area rife with killings. The next year the city-wide figure plummeted to 32, a record...
...Libya repeatedly warned Britain of "catastrophic effects" for their relationship if al-Megrahi died in jail - the alarmist phrase also emerges in the minutes of the March 2009 Glasgow meeting. Ministers in Westminster duly conveyed these threats to Edinburgh. Labour and the Scottish Nationalists are fierce opponents. "The British government have a better relationship with [Libyan leader Colonel Muammar] Gaddafi than they do with Scotland," says Ed Owen, a former special adviser to Straw. But Scottish politicians could not ignore the overlap between Scottish and U.K. interests. Instead, they devised a plan to release al-Megrahi on compassionate grounds, rather...
...told by British Foreign Minister Bill Rammell "that neither the prime minister [Brown] nor the foreign secretary [David Miliband] would want Mr. Megrahi to pass away in prison, but the decision on transfer lies in the hands of the Scottish ministers." If the critically ill al-Megrahi died in jail, the Libyan minister told Scottish officials, there would be "catastrophic consequences" for Britain's relations with Libya. (Watch a TIME video with Gordon Brown...