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...fusion of northern technique and southern hardware seems to be paying dividends. Somali pirates now demand, and often receive, hundreds of thousands of dollars in ransom, according to the Piracy Reporting Center's Choong. With that sort of money the pirates "can afford to buy themselves some pretty nice boats," says Choong, and hence extend the range of their seizures...
...role in a deadly train raid; in Anlong Veng, Cambodia. In 1994 fighters led by Chhouk Rin attacked a train bound for the coastal city of Sihanoukville, killing 13 Cambodians and abducting Frenchman Jean-Michel Braquet, Briton Mark Slater and Australian David Wilson. The three backpackers were executed after ransom negotiations collapsed weeks later. Sentenced to life in prison but free while his case was being appealed, Chhouk Rin fled after the Supreme Court upheld his conviction and issued a warrant for his arrest in February. At the time of his capture, he was reportedly putting the finishing touches...
...depressed corners, where nearly 25% of families live below the poverty line. Meanwhile, the region's mob bosses are ruthlessly expanding their empire. Once considered less sophisticated and less organized than its nearby Sicilian cousins, 'Ndrangheta was notorious in the 1980s for brutal but not necessarily lucrative kidnappings for ransom. For decades, Calabrian gangsters were satisfied with taking a cut from the limited economic activity of the countryside. But after an intense government campaign forced the Sicilian Mafia to scale back its narcotics business, the coastal region of Calabria offered an ideal alternative as a drug-trading route. Over...
...Ransom, 56, learned that the hard way. A disabled former secretary from Bonham, Texas, she took up online poker with glee about a year ago. Lonely at home and hooked on the thrill of competing, she began playing $20 and $30 tables and losing too much. Then an online friend at the Women's Poker Club gave her some sisterly advice, which she took to heart. "Now I deposit only so much a month," she says, "and if I lose it, I just play free games until the next month." Borrowing to play is a sure sign of trouble...
...similar tradition involving "self-employed models.") In an era in which players charge money for autographs, and athletes look upon fans and the media as so many flies, the bike ride is not just quaint. It is therapeutic. And in an era in which team owners hold franchises for ransom, and city-states fight city-states for them, it is positively heartening to know the Packers will always be in Green Bay. How's this for a bylaw? If by some civic catastrophe the Packers - now valued at $165 million - must be sold, the proceeds go to Green...