Vice: Journo-tourism for hipsters

Vice is a brash, Brooklyn-based magazine and international media company, but mostly it’s a brand of thinking and marketing that has extended itself over the past decade to a popular website and YouTube channel with bureaus around the world. Vice makes as much news as it reports; a recent foray involved the Vice crew bringing Dennis Rodman to North Korea to meet with Kim Jong Un

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Australia to Join List of Countries Adding Graphic Pictorial Warning Labels To Cigarette Packages

The Australian high court published its decision, but not the opinion, which will be given at later date regarding the tobacco packaging. When the new law is enforced, large tobacco companies will be forced to show graphic pictures of many possible health risks involved in continues smoking. Tobacco firms say law will only boost illicit trade while impinging on intellectual property. Tobacco kills nearly […]

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Sentenced to Serving the Good Life in Norway

The seagulls begin squawking at 6 in the morning and the cigarettes cost too much, but Lars, 41, knows there are worse places to call home. On Bastoy, an island 46 miles south of Oslo, he and 124 other residents live in brightly colored wooden chalets, spread over one square mile of forest and gently sloping hills

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Mom: ‘I fear the worst, that my daughter is gone’

After arguing with her husband, Liza Murphy walked out of their home in Emerson, New Jersey, leaving behind her purse, her cigarettes, her cell phone and her three children, her husband told police. There has been no sign of her since August 19, 2007.

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