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...neither is Tonya Drake, 35, a mother of four. She had no criminal record or history of drug use before she made the unfortunate decision to mail a package for a friend in exchange for $44. The package's contents were unknown to her, but happened to contain 200 grams of crack cocaine. She was caught, threw herself on the mercy of the court much like Vali did, and is now serving 10 years in federal prison on a "possession with intent to distribute" conviction. Drake is also black and poor, and has probably never seen Harvard...
Despite advances of learning in our computer age, we read daily horoscopes with credulity, and we persist in our study of the still-beguiling works of ancient Merlins. On the Internet, mysterious quatrains of the 16th century French physician and prognosticator Michel Nostradamus purport to contain foreknowledge of plagues and fires and even of 21st century politics. Visions of apocalypse in the Bible's Book of Revelation are persuasive enough to inspire generations of doomsayers and to drive some believers to suicide...
...Supreme Court on a technicality - Judge Guzman had failed to interrogate the suspect before indicting him, as required by Chilean law. Last week the judge set about rectifying his error by subjecting General Pinochet to an interview. And the general's answers to the judge's questions may contain some clues as to his likely fate...
Britney-clone is a hit in Brazil. You can't stop teen pop, but you'd hope to contain...
Same goes for the new high-end G4 desktops Jobs also unveiled last week. They will contain what Apple has unimaginatively dubbed a SuperDrive. This is another industry first: a combined DVD-R (for recordable) and CD-RW (for rewritable) slot. What that means is, you will be able to record 60 minutes' worth of your own digital home movies and slide shows onto a disc that will play in any DVD machine (or 74 minutes' worth of digital music that will play on any CD machine). There's even a free piece of software called iDVD to help...