Word: lateraling
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Gonzalez was one person Billings didn't loan money to. Gonzalez's wife Tabitha told police that Billings once donated $5,000 to their nonprofit program to teach people self-defense, but he refused them a loan to save their martial arts studio, which later went under. According to Tabitha, she and Gonzalez have six children...
...Extradited to the Netherlands in 1999 following meetings between U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, Nelson Mandela and Gaddafi. The same day, the U.N. suspends its sanctions. Two months later, U.S. and Libyan officials meet face-to-face for the first time in nearly two decades...
...White Queen, is using Twitter to reinterpret her book as a series of tweets from its main character. Penguin has commissioned two 19-year-old University of Chicago students to put together a book titled, Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less, to be published later this year with synopses from Shakespeare's works, to the Harry Potter series, to of course, Twilight...
...mainland China flooded the region following the Chinese civil war, creating a demand for low-cost bed spaces for low-wage earners. Landlords, looking to extract more money per square foot of living space, packed two to three iron cages that served as bunk beds into apartments. Fifty years later, these slums continue to be one of the negative by-products of Hong Kong's meteoric rise from a humble, fishing village into an international financial powerhouse. Asia's world city is now home to some of the world's wealthiest, claiming the distinction of having the most billionaires...
...days later, in what was supposed to be the quiet Friday before Ramadan, the ministers of the defense, interior and national security and the head of the Baghdad Security Command were angrily grilled during a special meeting called by the deputy speaker of parliament and the defense and security committee of the legislature. Parliament is technically in recess and on holiday until the end of Ramadan (Sept. 19); only two dozen legislators were on hand. But the session, which started at 10 a.m. and lasted past lunch and into the afternoon, was so contentious the deputy speaker asked parliament security...