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...shenanigans also became the metier of spring break's most controversial enthusiast: Joe Francis, the man behind the Girls Gone Wild video series. Francis' videos of topless coeds made him a fortune - quite literally off the backs (and especially fronts) of young women - until an ill-advised shoot in Panama City, Fla., in 2003 led to Francis being jailed in a dispute over a civil suit that stemmed from the videotaping of underage girls...
...full cry: according to student discount-travel agency STA Travel, the average spring breaker spends $1,100 for their seven-night trip (many of which they will be too drunk to remember). In Florida, while annual visitor numbers dropped for the first time in seven years, student bookings to Panama City Beach are up by more than 20%, according to studentcity.com. Meanwhile, the nature of spring break continues to evolve. Alternative trips include everything from tutoring migrant farm workers in Florida to registering voters in rural Mississippi. Break Away, an organization that trains and helps colleges across the United States...
...Bush was no doubt mindful. As President, he instituted the latest ban on coffin pictures in 1991, at the beginning of the first Gulf War (two years after TV networks juxtaposed images of him smiling and joking with reporters alongside footage of coffins coming back from the invasion of Panama). The Pentagon is now lifting that ban.(See pictures photographing the remains of the fallen...
...Bosworth has served in diplomatic posts in Panama, Spain, and France and later held several senior posts in the State Department in Washington...
...exports has expanded by a factor of nearly 6 over the past two decades, from $4.5 billion in 1986 to $25.7 billion in 2006, and governments around the world are demanding that Beijing boost the safety of what it produces. In 2006, after more than 100 people died in Panama upon consuming cough medicine that contained toxic diethylene glycol from China, the mainland's food- and product-safety problems became an international concern. Adulterated wheat gluten from China was blamed for the death of thousands of pets in North America in 2007. That year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration...