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...male models and sends Rushdie Free Love Cookies on Facebook. Once, she wrote about her sex life on a blog called “Mongol Whored.” Gawker truly outdid itself to get to the steamy blog—Min had last posted in January 2008, and set it on private—but, unscrupulous Gawker reported gleefully: “the Google caches everything, you know...
When Min went to Harvard—she remembers partying to Nelly’s “Hot in Herre”—she could believe in at least a false privacy. No longer. So remember: don’t just set your secret blogs on private—delete them. Then your romances with lusty literary luminaries can be both hot and Gawker-free...
...Pedro Sula, which used to bring hundreds of tourists to Honduras every day, have been canceled. A project to build an international airport at the Copán ruins was suspended, and charter groups from Europe are backing out. Overall, it is estimated that Honduras' economy has been set back 10 years over the past three months. (See pictures of violence in the wake of the Honduran coup...
...Familia has established a well organized and well enforced distribution system in its key U.S. markets, the sort of rural and suburban communities where meth has taken greatest hold in the U.S. "They set up in houses in middle-class suburbs," says Benson. "The only thing missing is the white picket fences." Those homes, where agents usually find large caches of automatic rifles and pistols, can also be scenes of violent kidnappings, beatings and murders. Last year a man abducted and badly beaten by Mexican traffickers because he owed them money was rescued by police in an Atlanta suburb just...
...European Commission in Brussels also took steps to address the problem from a procedural standpoint by issuing new rules for dealing with asylum seekers. Officials set a six-month time limit for governments to hold refugee application hearings and advised all 27 European Union countries to introduce the same asylum procedures, rather than wildly varying standards. Jacques Barrot, the commission's vice president, said the changes aimed to offer "a more level playing field" to the huge numbers of people from Africa, Asia and elsewhere flooding into Europe. (See pictures of the French cracking down on migrants...