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OIZUMI, JAPAN ? At the Brazil Plaza shopping center, Carlos Watanabe thinks back on 12 lonely years as a factory worker in Japan ? and can't find a single thing to praise except the cold mug of Kirin lager in his hand.

He and his bar mates, all Japanese-Brazilian, have plenty of work and steady incomes, but th...

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hy didn’t he escape? Why didn’t he call the cops? What’s the real story? What’s wrong with him?

America - and many in the media - spent last week asking those questions based on our armchair know-nothing analysis of the supposed mistakes of Shawn Hornbeck, the 15-year-old Missouri boy kidnapped at age 11 as he was riding his bike.

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News 21 January 2007 50 LIFERS ON THE LOOSE EVERY WEEK EXCLUSIVE By Brian Lironi, Political Editor

UP to 50 of Scotland's most dangerous criminals are allowed out of jail every week, the Sunday Mail can reveal.

The number of potentially high-risk lifers being released under the training for freedom programme provoked mounting concern yesterday.

We revealed last week how four ...

"Abstinence programs, without adding (sexual) responsibility, do great harm because you're leaving the kid out there with these strong emotions," Minshall told the Longview News-Journal. The 63-year-old pastor holds a doctorate in sociopsychology.

Hallsville High School junior Brooke Johnson takes a different view of abstinence-only education and efforts.

"It's really changing a l...

Declaring himself a proud conservative before a crowd of cheering supporters waving American flags, Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., announced yesterday his candidacy for president.

Brownback, an evangelical Protestant turned Roman Catholic and a former Kansas agriculture secretary, said he would focus on reviving faith and families in America; combating abortion, poverty and wasteful governme...

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Well, it's official: Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has announced she will run for president in 2008.

The hyperventilating denizens of our nation's newsrooms are reporting this story as if there was any doubt Hillary wanted to rule over the American people.

Hillary's campaign workers posted a videotaped message on her web site which said, "I'm in and I'm in to ...

The Cyber Crimes Unit received a referral from the Federal Bureau of Investigation's San Antonio office after Broussard purchased illegal DVDs from an Internet merchant. With the help of FBI agents, Cyber Crimes Unit investigators conducted a search of Broussard's home. Subsequent forensic examination of electronic media obtained during the search revealed sexually explicit images of young ch...

(AP) HONG KONG Angela Yiu and Stella Cheng spent weeks meeting with fashion stylists and photographers before deciding on the mini skirts and high heels to wear in their promotion campaign.

They're not models peddling perfume or sports cars. They're English tutors who earn good money helping secondary school students pass Hong Kong's grueling exams to get into college.

"Their lon...