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...Sexting n.--Sending lewd messages or photos via cell phone...
...Birthers n.--Conspiracy theorists who deny Barack Obama was born...
Death panel n.--A fictional group alleged to be in charge of rationing care in health care reform proposals...
Green shoots n.--Signs of economic recovery
Some 14,000 people have been killed since President Felipe Calderón declared war on Mexico's drug cartels three years ago, sparking a brutal conflict that showed no sign of easing in 2009. Battered border cities like Juárez witnessed up to a dozen or more murders a day amid fighting between drug gangs and government forces--and, just as often, among rival cartels. Meanwhile, corruption in the ranks of police, army and government officials is so endemic that some analysts have declared the nation of 110 million a failed state. The U.S. has pledged $1.4 billion over three...