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...from the stereotype of the impoverished local-girl-turned-mule by unscrupulous traffickers. Clearly, many middle-class Americans and Europeans are ready to do dirty work for drug rings too, and many of the unsuccessful end up here with eight-year sentences. Their life in lock-up can hold unusual luxuries - and unusual dangers...
CONTEXT There is a 32-character crack that disables the digital lock that prevents HD-DVDs from being copied--dangerous for the $24 billion DVD industry. After a website posted the code in February, lawyers demanded its removal. The online reaction then boiled over: the crack suddenly popped up everywhere. A song has even appeared on YouTube with the code as its lyrics...
...Prices double in two days. People are leaving the country. You can't survive here. The government pretends the exchange rate is 250 Zim dollars to the [ U.S.] dollar; in reality it's 25,000. It's disastrous. And as people leave, Mugabe's people, who have a lock on foreign currency in Zimbabwe, are buying up every business in Bulawayo. Everything is geared towards the advancement of Mugabe and his party elite...
...harp.According to Ogunnaike, drumming has influenced several non-musical aspects of his life, from building personal relationships to honing his work ethic.“West African drumming in particular is polyrhythmic, which is incredible on so many levels because you don’t have to be in lock-step with other musicians,” he says.“Each one of us has different rhythms, day and night, the seasons. The body has circadian rhythms, and drumming teaches you how to link up all these rhythms in harmonious ways,” he says.He offers...
...warranted. Since an estimated 80% of child sexual assaults are committed by family members, groups like Amacher's are concerned that mandatory sentence laws, not to mention the death penalty, might dissuade certain people from reporting abuse to authorities. "With sex offenders we want to say let's lock them up and throw away the key - these folks are just awful, after all - but it's just not realistic," Amacher said...