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...Nujood's ordeal began last February, when the family gathered to celebrate her wedding to a motorcycle deliveryman in his 30s. She first set eyes on the groom when she took her marriage vows. After spending her wedding night with her parents and 15 brothers and sisters, Nujood was taken by her new husband to his family village, where, she says, he beat and raped her every night. After two nightmarish months he allowed her to visit her parents, who rebuffed her pleas to end the marriage...
...from the tractors and earth-moving machines that come in archetypal construction yellow to footwear and boots. Its early 1900s tractors helped revolutionize the construction industry - and inspired the first military tanks that took to battle in World War I. But now Caterpillar is facing a very 21st century ordeal, one that almost all other companies face amid what is arguably the gravest economic crisis since the Depression. On Monday, Caterpillar joined other U.S. companies in announcing the collective loss of some 75,000 jobs at operations worldwide. (See pictures of the stock market crash...
...they see it, for good reason. The village has been through this ordeal before--twice. In 1993 the Mexican spotted owl, which nests in the Lincoln forest, was declared threatened--a ruling that, combined with a slumping timber market, "killed the logging industry," according to Wood. And in 1999 an environmental group, the Center for Biological Diversity, began petitioning on behalf of the checkerspot, pointing out that it was at risk from development, off-road vehicles and livestock-grazing--or as Nicole Rosmarino, wildlife-program director of WildEarth Guardians, which joined the cause in 2007, puts it, "smelly cows, noisy...
...Biggie and Kevin James. (Thin Clint was the middle of the sandwich.) The title of the James film both spelled out its modest intentions and lacked the inspired oxymoronia of Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector (which lacked any other redeeming feature). Most of the big critics skipped the ordeal of reviewing Mall Cop and handed it off to second-stringers, who pounded the film pretty savagely. So of course I had to find it ... almost semi-recommendable. Anyway, an easy...
Reports trickling out in recent weeks from various countries lining the Andaman Sea have related portions of this ordeal as well as other, similar incidents involving the same ethnic group. But the tale of one survivor has emerged that, if accurate, paints a picture of a dehumanizing odyssey, portraying the actions of surrounding governments in horrific tones. The man's name is Muzaffar, and his testimony was obtained over cell phone from his place of temporary detention in India by the Arakan Project, a Bangkok-based group advocating the rights of these boat people. Muzaffar's account appears to amplify...