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This is circus stripped down to its most basic elements: simple blue tent, one ring, two clowns and none of the fancy smoke or lighting that has become commonplace in the increasingly sophisticated recent big-top circus revival. This month, Cirque de Soleil pitches its tent for the eagerly anticipated “Dralion,” its newest, biggest and most expensive (and expansive) production ever at Liberty State Park in New Jersey, while earlier this year, Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey offered a three-ring flashy extravaganza, “Kaleidoscope,” in a massive...
...practice, that love finds expression in huge sums of public money flung at the islanders. Traditional houses of wood and corrugated iron are steadily being replaced by the ugly concrete housing projects that ring all French towns. The revenu minimum d'insertion (rmi) - a low-level unemployment benefit created in 1988 - provides a financial lifeline to one-fifth of the island's population...
...UNITED STATES Porn Ring Broken Four Americans and five Russians were arrested after a year-long investigation into the sale of child pornography over the Internet. U.S. officials broke up the pedophile ring, which operated the Blue Orchid website, after posing as customers for the videos advertised. The men arrested are charged with producing and distributing the videos, which show Russian boys, some as young as eight years old, being sexually abused...
...jeweler to process diamonds, later etching royal crests into the precious stones at the request of various royal families. The practice stopped when some clients found it necessary to unload their gems for cash. Boucheron now has a different jewel - perfume. Its first, in a bottle shaped like a ring, was a swift success. Today most of the company's dollars come from scents...
...where are all the dreamers now? Did someone ring a bell saying the jig was up, time to cash out? Nope. They never...