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...they elevated it," says Rodney Benson, special agent in charge in Atlanta for the Drug Enforcement Administration. This week the DEA led a campaign that saw the arrests of more than 300 alleged meth traffickers in the U.S., all allegedly tied to La Familia. It is considered the largest roundup ever of Mexican cartel operatives. One of the busts, at a suburban house in Lawrencevllle, Ga., yielded almost 180 lbs of "the clearest [meth] crystals I have ever seen," says Benson. (See a story about Mexico's evangelical narcos and drug-dealing for Jesus...
...funny thing - literally - is happening in prime time. Sitcoms don't have the ratings or reach Seinfeld did, and probably no single one will again. But collectively, TV sitcoms are better and more diverse than they have been in years. Any roundup of the best new TV shows of 2009 would be mostly, if not entirely, comedies. And they're expanding the definition of what sitcoms can be: musical, complex, more than a half-hour long and sometimes even dead serious...
...high school seniors wade through the college admissions process, some schools are updating their applications in a stated effort to both humanize the process and to gain more informative responses from applicants. A roundup of recent changes...
...main one appeared to be a ringing rejection of the centre-left. Across the E.U.'s 27 member states, the story was the same regardless of who the incumbent national government was: voters were shifting rightwards, leaving many social-democrat parties hurting from historic defeats. (Read TIME's roundup on the European election from the U.K., Italy, France and Germany...
...Read TIME's roundup on the European election from the U.K., Italy, France and Germany...