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...president is also looking for rewards from north of the border for his clampdown. The U.S. Congress is currently debating a two-year, $1.4 billion anti-drug aid proposal for Mexico, including high-tech phone-tapping equipment and possibly Black Hawk helicopters. Calderon argues the U.S. government has a responsibility to help because it is U.S. drug consumers that effectively fund the cartels. But skeptics fear that U.S. equipment could fall into the wrong hands. The drug cartels have turned many former police and army officers. One entire unit of army special forces deserted in the late 1990s to form...
Definition sel-fohn nov-uhl n. A novel written using the characters on a cell-phone keypad. A mostly Japanese phenomenon, cell-phone novels are primarily composed of brief, text-message-like sentences...
Context Cell-phone novels have existed since 2000, when users of Japanese cell-phone websites started to upload their writings to the tiny devices. An initial hit, Deep Love (since turned into a TV show), has been followed by such concise titles as If You and Love...
Usage Now written in reverse?from cell phone to page?the often melodramatic stories accounted for half of Japan's Top 10 novels in 2007. Composed primarily for and by young women, the books have stirred debate about whether they are a legitimate genre or are simply diverting young people from real literature...
...interview by phone, Lachter praised Theron for her grace and talented acting...