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...moved to L.A., landed an internship at Teen Vogue and made new friends. There's frenemy Heidi Montag, with her on-again, off-again boyfriend Spencer Pratt, the social-climbing Laddie Macbeth who drove a wedge between her and Lauren; Audrina Patridge, Lauren's less confident wing woman; Whitney Port, her levelheaded confidante and co-worker at a fashion-p.r. firm. Over three seasons, the four and their dream life made The Hills MTV's most popular show...
Hackney and the rest of the Met have already paddled quite far upstream by pouring additional resources into community policing. "They call us 'tea drinkers,' " says Police Sergeant Andy Port, on patrol with Police Constable Pete Ward in one of the rougher reaches of Hackney. The nickname refers to the amount of time officers working for the Met's Safer Neighborhood Teams spend chatting with locals over cups...
...drinkers are symbols of the Met's impressive breadth. The pace of their work is more sedate than the high-octane life of colleagues in rapid-response units or on big investigations. Still, the job has its excitements. Today, Port and Ward find a stash of heroin and crack cocaine in an old shoe on a ledge above the elevator in a tenement block. Next stop is a friendly call at a café called Cyber Juices. The proprietress welcomes the cops. "Whatever you're doing, you're doing a good job," she says. "I have to give you props...
...From the port city of Iquitos (about an hour by plane northeast of Lima), the 12-cabin Aqua delves deep into the 5-million-acre (2 million ha) Pacaya Samiria Reserve in placid pursuit of rare pink dolphins, giant river otters and elusive black caimans. The three-, four- and seven-day journeys include daily excursions on skiffs - manned by guides from the local Bora and Yagua tribes - into remote Amazon villages...
...reconnaissance plane had recently flown at least four missions over Nicaragua. The Administration speculated that the aircraft might have been used to help the Sandinistas gain information on contra operations. White House officials also said that a Soviet freighter had delivered a large shipment of arms to the Nicaraguan port of Corinto. That the Sandinistas were receiving weapons made in the U.S.S.R. or East bloc countries was nothing new. But for the past 18 months, such shipments had been sent to Cuba and subsequently picked up by Nicaraguan vessels. The resumption of direct deliveries may reflect a new and unsettling...