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...again. "We're hoping that these deals will never have to see the light of day again," says Hugh Riley, Secretary-General of the Caribbean Tourism Organization, the body representing the travel interests of 32 nations in the region. "It's unusual for the Caribbean to have to offer these kinds of deals. Nobody makes a profit when that happens...
...hunger strike to agitate for new election legislation (it worked), while actress Mia Farrow announced that she had gained nine pounds in preparation for a 3-week fast to draw awareness to starvation in Darfur, telling People magazine that magician and publicity generator David Blaine had called to offer some tips from the 44 days he spent suspended in a glass box above London's River Thames without food. On May 3, more than 160 journalists and fellow Northwestern alumni launched a "relay" hunger strike in solidarity with Saberi; volunteers each take a 24-hour shift...
...political performance art," one California psychologist said of the nearly 300 fasts he's staged. But for desperate people like Saberi, it's much more than that. As Sharman Apt Russell, author of Hunger: An Unnatural History, wrote, "What else can the powerless, the weak and disenfranchised offer up to the world but their own soft bodies...
...started out good and just got better. So in homage to its decade-and-a-half on cable, I offer 15 reasons to cherish Turner Classic Movies...
Known as "red devils," these graffiti-covered relics offer one of the few relics of Panama City's origins. Now a glitzy swirl of modern high-rise apartments, shimmering financial towers, cocktail parties and plastic surgery, the city was once just another of the squat and unpretentious capitals that dot Central America - almost all serviced by aging Bluebird buses, handed-down to the countries by U.S. school districts looking to dump their old fleets for newer models of transport. See pictures from Panama's historic 2006 vote on the canal...