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...fishermen get the worst deal of all: the work gets harder and the pay gets less. Down one lane in a waterfront neighborhood, Danilo Ante sits at home with his girlfriend and four kids between fishing trips. On his last job, Ante took home about $21 for six weeks of work on the high seas. "In the past, there were only a few fishermen," he says. "But now we get fewer fish because there are more boats on the water." Even if his boats keep catching less fish, Ante doesn't have a lot of options in General Santos...
Fast Facts: • Born Sept. 4, 1955, in Newark, N.J., "Bernie" grew up in a tough neighborhood of Paterson, N.J., a suburb of New York City. His mother abandoned him when he was a boy, and he lived with friends and relatives until his father took custody of him. In his autobiography, Kerik says his mother was a prostitute who might have been killed by her pimp...
...west side of Killeen, Texas, is like countless other places in America's heartland, freshly carved out of prairie pastures with wide streets in bucolic neighborhoods like Sunflower Estates and Bridgewood. But on a glorious, cloudless fall day, the flags at the home-sales center nearby were at half-staff in honor of the 13 fallen at Fort Hood, victims of a gunman whose deadly attack was stopped thanks to a petite, long-haired, blond mom from the neighborhood...
...evidence or coerced a witness's testimony. But fortunately for McGhee and Harrington, they did something on which the law is not completely clear - they didn't just present the evidence at trial, but also helped gather it. In an unusual move, the prosecutors aided detectives by canvassing the neighborhood and interviewing witnesses, and so their actions may not be covered by absolute immunity. That is what the Supreme Court will decide...
Castro believes that Chávez's oil-fueled Bolivarian revolution (named for 19th century South American independence hero Simón Bolívar) discriminates against the middle class. When he recently applied for a mortgage to buy a new house in a safer neighborhood, he says he was offered an exorbitant interest rate, set largely by the government, because of his economic status. "I came out with the impression that they give priority to the lower strata," he says. It's admirable to boost the poor, who before Chávez were largely ignored by Venezuela...