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...British prisons ban inmates from accessing the Internet except for educational purposes, and then only under staff supervision. But prisoners are still finding ways to update their Facebook pages from behind bars, sometimes using smart phones they've smuggled into jail. More than 3,800 illicit cell phones were seized in British prisons in 2008, prompting authorities to start using mobile-phone signal blockers and body-orifice security scanners in some jails. Nevertheless, officials admit there's not much they can do to stop prisoners from having friends or family update their Facebook pages for them...
...film focusing on a single day in the lives of 21 people is bound to have poor character development. All of the characters are one-dimensional, except for the surprisingly excellent Ashton Kutcher. As the film’s central character, Kutcher undergoes the most changes over the course of the day and gradually wins over the audience with his combination of charm and down-to-earth attitude. In a film directed by the menopausal king of chick flicks, Garry Marshal (“Pretty Woman,” “Runaway Bride...
During lunch, dinner (up until seven o’clock), and Sunday brunch, a guest may only eat in Winthrop if accompanied by a resident; in Lowell, the same rule applies, except that dinner restrictions lift 15 minutes earlier and there are no rules on Saturdays...
...Imagine having so much money and nothing to eat!" said one of the Colombian GIs, Frankistey Giraldo, whose father named him after Frankenstein. When they looked at themselves, they still saw a bunch of hungry, unwashed peasants in the middle of no-man's land. They were fabulously wealthy. Except they weren...
...hard to imagine Gosling submitting to such a panel or any authority, except perhaps the highest. "If there's a heaven and [the dead lover] is looking down, he'll be proud of me," said Gosling, who declared before his arrest that he would not cooperate with an investigation. Without the dead man's name, date of death, a location or a body, that investigation is unlikely to prove easy...