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About 100 million people in 232 countries are expected to tune in for Super Bowl XLIII on Feb. 1, and the game's intermission will be as tightly scripted as its opening drives. The Super Bowl halftime show has evolved into a strobe-lit, confetti-strewn spectacle that, depending on your penchant for pageantry, is either a tribute to the Super Bowl's majesty or a monument to a culture of excess...
Televisa has also resisted showing the messages that the cartels write or print on blankets, which are strewn over bridges and hung on public walls as part of their campaign of terrorism. Known as narco mantas (capes), many messages in recent months have accused the administration of President Felipe Calderón of working with the Sinaloa cartel based on Mexico's Pacific Coast. Monterrey is home to the rival Gulf cartel, which is believed to be behind many of these messages...
...careful what you wish for. Last year, at the midpoint of BSG's fourth and final season, the fleet landed on Earth to find a dead, rubble-strewn nuclear wasteland. It's as if Moses had crossed the desert only to find that the Promised Land had fallen into the ocean. The focus of humankind's survival strategy and religious mythology instantly turned to radioactive ash. (See the top 10 TV series...
...room’s residents, who did not want their names printed, said that nothing was removed from their room but that papers and books were strewn on the floor, food was spilled, and drawers had been rummaged through. The recycling bins were also emptied onto the floor...
...experiment was borne out of the closing, in the early 1990s, of Zurich's infamous Letten "needle park," where thousands of addicts from across Europe gathered to shoot heroin on garbage-strewn railway tracks. "We wanted to offer a program to reach out to these people," says Dr. Adrian Kormann, medical director of a Zurich HAT clinic where Heun is treated. "And we knew that an approach based only on repression doesn't work...