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...nastier. When Marina, a 25-year-old from Chisinau was met in Budapest by a stocky Bosnian calling himself Ivo, he told her she was too ugly for prostitution and might have to be sold by the kilogram for her organs. Ivo then took her and a friend to a hideaway in northeastern Bosnia and raped them repeatedly over the next two days, introducing them to prospective buyers in the intervals. In Montenegro and Serbia, several women describe being lined up naked in the hotel room where they were held, in a kind of inspection line for slave shoppers...
...victims who do manage to escape, such memories take a heavy toll. "My soul is stained," said 19-year-old Olga recently, picking at her food back home in Moldova. "I can't forgive myself for trusting people." Across town, Marina says she wakes up most nights in a cold sweat, pale and shaking. She gobbles tranquilizers and smokes three packs of cigarettes a day. "People look at me and think I am either a junkie or an alcoholic," she told a reporter, glancing repeatedly over her shoulder. "This is no life...
When the going gets tough in the technology capital of the world, the tough take a nap. As blackouts last week hit iSyndicate, a content-creator dotcom in downtown San Francisco, product manager Marina Psaros did just that. "I lost a bunch of stuff I was working on," she said, so she caught up on some of the sleep her kind is forever losing. Not that it helped. "This whole thing is f______ ridiculous," Psaros says. "Come on, it's not like we're living in Romania or something...
...blimp crashed into a marina b) NBC nixed the "visiting team gets no helmets" rule c) The Cincinnati Bengals want in d) A cheerleader revealed she was never a stripper...
...next morning, we marched down to the marina to meet Steve Ward, an Aramark official who, at 52, has spent more than 30 years on Lake Powell. "O.K., are you ready to see your Admiral houseboat?" he asked. Before any of us could respond, there it was--every bit as enormous as I had imagined it in my worst anxiety attack. Once we were inside, though, the angst turned to wonder. It looked more like a luxury two-story condo in Trump Tower than a boat. The Admiral came with a fully equipped kitchen, a large oval dining table that...