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...peak of the agricultural and trade-based Mustang culture came five hundred years ago, before outside states first annexed the kingdom of Lo. But the outside world’s changes during the intervening centuries have largely left behind the roughly six thousand Loba, as the people of Mustang are called. Yes, I saw two huge satellite dishes in the town of Tsarang and listened to the Eagles’ “Hotel California” while sitting in a traditional kitchen sipping milk tea. But I also watched farmers transform the desert to vivid green with centuries...
...contagion debilitate L.A. and areas beyond? So far, property experts are still trying to put a positive spin to it. John Karevoll of DataQuick, a company that compiles real estate information, points out that the Los Angeles County foreclosure figure is still well off that region?s previous peak of 11,494 recorded in the third quarter of 1996, during southern California?s last real estate collapse. And he's encouraged that activity at the very high end of the L.A. market hasn?t fallen off, that home prices in the county overall continue to rise and that job growth...
...juvenile crime rate in 2005 (the most recent year cited in the report) was down by two-thirds from its peak in 1993. Other Justice Department statistics show that the population of juvenile males in prison is only half of its historic high. The number of high school senior boys using illegal drugs has fallen by almost half compared with the number in 1980. And the percentage of high school boys drinking heavily is now the lowest on record. When I was in high school, more than half of all senior boys told researchers they had downed five or more...
Nevertheless, the team performed at its peak and delivered results to match, returning to the top of the podium for the first time since...
...wounded survivors by shooting them in the head or strangling them. Last month, junta leader General Sonthi Boonyaratglin publicly admitted that the fighting in the south had reached crisis point, and told Bloomberg: "The insurgent groups are trying to expand their network and operations; [they are] now at their peak...