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...turn down federal stimulus money, was accused of cheating on his wife and lost control of the legislature, having his vetoes overridden more times than any other Nevada governor. Budget cuts have closed the only hospital cancer wing for uninsured patients. "We're on the bottom of every bad list," says Steven Horsford, majority leader of the Nevada senate and de facto head of Nevada's government, who tried and failed to enact a corporate income tax. The state is so desperate, the legislature even considered a state lottery. Which is about as good a revenue plan in Nevada...
Over the last year, Mexico has suffered from a seemingly never-ending list of escapes, riots and murders in its prisons. In October 2008, prison inmates hurled grenades and sprayed Kalashnikov rounds at each other in a penitentiary in the Pacific state of Sinaloa. A month earlier, federal police stormed a rioting jail in the border city of Tijuana, resulting in the death of 23 prisoners. Just this past May, in the mining town of Zacatecas, 53 inmates simply walked out of a jail, leaving in a 17-car convoy backed by a helicopter...
...already had an exclusive set of photos from inside hospitals, schools and even Pyongyang's elite military academy. But the idea of being the first Western photographer to visit a North Korean factory was very tempting. I asked for a list of industries where Korea was looking for foreign investment. One of them, chocolate, sounded particularly strange for a country never far from the brink of starvation. (See rare pictures from inside North Korea...
...writing sessions, I learned that B loves to think about psychology. Though his humor appears effortless, it is really the product of constant analysis. He makes hypotheses about what kinds of laughs might be associated with particular brain states. He keeps a running list of what people say about the mind as he watches television. He finds food for thought even in exercise competitions. "Harness your psychic powers to enhance your muscles and annihilate your opponent!" he remembered an overexcited host saying. B wondered why the show would portray the mind as so dominant over the body...
...Security, he said "I don't comment on jobs that I haven't been offered. We'll see what the future might bring." Los Angeles Mayor Villaraigosa was less reticent: "Let me put it this way, the powers that be would have Bill Bratton at the top of the list for any high-level law enforcement positions that would open up. He?s just the best...