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There are always some colorful details thrown in about the origins of the money. Sometimes it’s a payoff from an outgoing government, sometimes it’s an over-invoiced government contract. Other times it’s pure graft. The only common thread is that the money does not belong to him, which is the very reason he needs to get it into a foreign account quickly...
...LITTLE THINGS Cathay Pacific has 51-cm-wide seats, Southwest Airlines has 45 cm and Singapore Airlines 50 cm. Who knew? This online guide does?and it combines factoids with entertaining travelogues and helpful tips thrown in for good measure...
...industry for causing the tumor that killed his wife, American trial lawyers have been dialing for dollars, convinced that mobile phones could be the next tobacco. But unlike tobacco lawsuits, which have cost the industry over $200 billion, Reynard's suit and the host of others that followed were thrown out due to a lack of scientific evidence that mobile phones cause cancer. Indeed, after a large study last year at Adelaide's Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science showed no increased cancer risk - contradicting a damning earlier study from the Royal Adelaide Hospital - the industry breathed a billion-dollar...
...greatest thing about women’s hockey is its open seating,” Stone said. “You can go wherever you want. You can hang on the glass, you can paint your stomachs and not be thrown out of the game. We need those kind of fans...
Amidst the struggle, one of the locals got thrown to the ground. He got up, pissed, and tried to go after my friend. I grabbed him and held him off. Meanwhile, my friend was trying to ward off the other townie’s best offense, which apparently was open-hand slapping. Just then, we saw police lights. Things ended abruptly, and the townies started walking the other way, looking like they were minding their own business...