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Until recently, residents of Saudi Arabia could easily believe they lived in the quietest realm on earth. Sure, citizens were arrested from time to time and punished with floggings, amputations and beheadings, but usually for quiet crimes like drunkenness, theft and drug smuggling. Police rarely had occasion to flip on their sirens, much less draw their guns. If they sought someone for arrest, they did so discreetly, using family and tribal ties to track down a person rather than put out a wanted poster, which might alarm the public and scandalize the suspect's clan...
...HUPD officer was dispatched to Lamont Library to take a report of an attempted theft of a wallet...
...Drudge Report, bloggers, the Pamela Anderson-Tommy Lee sex video, identity theft, online dating, the eBay economy, Googling...
...Bush Administration says the country is largely quiet--but a successful guerrilla war doesn't require much more than a fervent handful of fighters. In Iraq there are on average a dozen attacks against American soldiers each day. There are countless acts of sabotage. There is massive theft of oil, copper (from power lines) and electrical equipment. And there are the now weekly high-profile terrorist acts, like the bombing of the U.N. headquarters two weeks ago and of a shrine in Najaf last week...
...surprise that the $55,000 Cadillac Escalade, the SUV of choice for Shaquille O'Neal and scores of other pro athletes and entertainers, is more likely to be stolen than any other vehicle, according to a report by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. The Escalade averaged 10.3 theft claims per 1,000 insured vehicles--nearly four times the average for all cars--and joined four other SUVs in the Top 10. But thieves don't just go off-road; the Dodge Stratus, a sporty sedan, ranks second on the list, followed by the two-door Mitsubishi Mirage. --By Sean...