Word: maras
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...report on gang activity in the U.S. military found that members of nearly every major street gang were present in the ranks of the U.S. armed forces. Service members associated with Bloods, Crips, Black Disciples, Gangster Disciples, Hells Angels, Latin Kings, The 18th Street Gang, Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), Mexican Mafia, Nortenos, Surenos, Vice Lords and various white supremacist groups were documented serving at U.S. military installations at home and abroad. The report said the Army had the highest count of gang members in its ranks, partly because it is the largest branch and partly because of relatively lax recruitment...
...watch a pair of leopards, I ask my two safari guides what animal they'd be most excited to see. I'm thinking elephants, lions, rhinos - the charismatic megafauna that attract tourists from across the world. Their answer: aardvarks and porcupines, the reclusive nocturnal residents of Kenya's Masai Mara. "I took care of cattle on the Mara when I was a boy," says Jackson Tinka, 21. "So I've seen a lot of wildlife...
...years ago, Berlusconi was forced to publicly apologize after Lario wrote to the left-leaning La Repubblica newspaper complaining that her husband had damaged her reputation by swooning over TV star Mara Carfagna. "Forgive me, I beg you," Berlusconi wrote in an open letter to his wife. "And take this public show of my private pride giving in to your fury as an act of love." But the sincerity of his apology is another matter; the same Carfagna is now the Minister for Equal Opportunities. (See 10 things to do in Rome...
...Ironically, despite its iron-fisted reputation, ARENA has not been able to tackle El Salvador's most urgent crisis, violent crime. The country has been overwhelmed by transnational Central American gangs like the Mara Salvatrucha - which actually originated in Los Angeles among the children of Salvadoran refugees waiting out the civil war - and today El Salvador has one of the world's highest murder rates. The problem is exacerbated by the social stress caused by the global recession, which is shrinking the remittances from Salvadorans living abroad that account for a large chunk of El Salvador's economy...
Professor David J. Barron, David W. Ogden and Thomas J. Perrelli will review the Department of Justice. Spencer A. Overton will work with the Justice and Civil Rights team. Shirley S. Sagawa will work with the Corporation for National Service, and Mara E. Rudman will serve on the Executive Office of the President Team and lead the review of the Office of Economic Advisors...