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...many prayers before deciding to flee her West Papuan home with her husband and three-year-old twin sons, Ferra Kambu says she found divine guidance. Surrounded by plastic bags containing their meager possessions in the Melbourne hotel room where the family is staying, the 36-year-old women's rights activist, one of 42 West Papuan asylum seekers released from Australian immigration detention last month on three-year protection visas, says the realization came to her clearly: "I was shown by the Lord that Australia has been given a role as the hand of God in helping to finally...
...like any other day, this is what is going to cross the line from Mexico: a million barrels of crude oil, 432 tons of bell peppers, 238,000 light bulbs, 166 brand-new Volkswagen Beetles, 16,250 toasters, $51 million worth of auto parts, everything from the little plastic knob on the air conditioner to your cell-phone charger. It all comes in trucks and boxcars and little panel vans, and that's just the stuff that Customs can keep track of. There is also the vast shadow market--not just the cocaine and heroin and freshly laundered money...
...German critic "perfect for the part" of a Nazi prison guard, reminisced after a speech to the U.S. Congress about seeing a Playboy calendar in high school and even held up two fingers behind the head of the Spanish Foreign Minister during a photo op. There's also the plastic surgery and hair replacement the 69-year-old billionaire has undergone to help mask the physical toll of his job--which he may well lose when Italians go to the polls this Sunday, with most voter surveys putting his center-left opponents ahead by 5 points. When he thanked supporters...
...Friday night, 20 undergraduates from a Habitat for Humanity trip danced cha-cha on the dark floor of a club called Cafe Brasil. Some sipped out of plastic cups, listening to a man singing on stage. The act was Fredy Omar con su Banda, an eight-member crew with one main vocalist—Fredy Omar himself...
Actually, not all of Batali's cookware looks great--his new plastic cutting boards feel as flimsy as Frisbees--but all of it looks different. That's because Batali's design team includes Sam and John Farber, the legendary father-son duo that founded OXO International, which makes those chunky, black Good Grips products that are some of the best-selling kitchen tools in history...