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...very hard to generalize - is that they have more of a facility with speech. They tend to be able to talk about what their inner life is like, whereas boys tend not to have too many models in their life who can help them to articulate the powder keg that's inside them...
...Magic Powder It is not only in the former Soviet Union and its satellites that the twin forces of globalization and communism's end have created criminal networks. In Africa, for example, proxy conflicts of the cold-war continent mutated into much more deadly struggles between criminally financed militias over minerals. Nowhere was this more clear than in the awful war in the Democratic Republic of Congo that broke out in 1998. In large measure, the war was driven by complex criminal conspiracies. A map of the main zones of conflict between the various armies and militias coincides with...
...wasn't the running, per se, that got the Harriers in trouble. Police suspected that the baking flour the runners used to mark their route was a toxic powder. After the run ended, they were taken into custody and interviewed for several hours while police conducted forensic tests on the flour. At 4 a.m. they were finally allowed to go home. The experience was particularly unsettling because there was nothing unusual about the Harriers' event - the group has been gathering for runs in Beijing since the 1980s. So why did police decide to pay such close attention now? "Paranoia," says...
...were issued Meals Ready to Eat (MREs), which contained packages of pretzels, crackers and cheese paste, lemonade powder, and, for the main course, rice, beans, and sausage, a sort of U.S. Army jambalaya...
...Clan members rush to the back room pulling heat, a geisha enters with the “merchandise.” Here, the symbolic function of the geisha emerges. The pale-faced woman, spinning a fan like a tape recorder while being showered with kilo upon kilo of white powder, unites sex, drugs, money, and music in a single image. The geisha, not the Wu-Tang Clan, is the focal point of this video: she is the ideal of a high-rolling hip-hop lifestyle, an ideal that will long outlive the rappers who made it famous...