December 2010
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danielleh:
White girls love Audrey Hepburn!
Also, I am drunk.
A pipeline operated by Mexico’s state-owned oil company exploded in the central state of Puebla early Sunday as thieves were trying to steal oil, killing 27 people, authorities said.
Torres said the initial explosion in the town of San Martin Texmelucan was followed by four smaller blasts, and the resulting spill had a five-kilometre radius. No one has been arrested.
Civil protection...
They show up in the early-morning hours: Chinese men and women, waiting silently and somewhat nervously outside of Apple stores in New York. On some days the lines they form can be a block long.
These are not typical Apple fans. Instead they are participants in a complex and curious trade driven by China’s demand for Apple’s fashionable gadgets — products that are made in China in the first...
BWONNNNNNNG
“just one more borderline sociopath in a territory where they blossomed like weeds”
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Evi Quaid called from a pay phone in Vancouver to say that she and her husband, Randy, the actor, had tried to drive to Siberia, but they “couldn’t figure out how to get there.” She said, “We’re running for our lives.” She wanted me to meet them the next day in Vancouver’s Chinatown—which couldn’t be arranged any other way, as the Quaids don’t use cell phones anymore, because, Evi said, “they’re...
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“I can’t think of a single precedent in American history of doing a referendum of the American armed forces on a policy issue,” Mr. Gates told the panel. “Are you going to ask them if they want 15-month tours? Are you going to ask them if they want to be part of the surge in Iraq? That’s not the way our civilian-led military has ever worked in our entire history. The ‘should’ question...
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