Nine of 11 England terror suspects released

Nine of the 11 Pakistani nationals being held in an alleged terror plot in northern England were released Tuesday, according to police. The arrests were made the week before Easter and came quickly after Britain’s chief terrorism officer, who has since resigned, exposed a list of people who were suspected of planning an al Qaeda-linked attack. Britain’s Greater Manchester Police said the men were released into the custody of the U.K.’s border agency, which will determine whether they can legally remain in England.

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How Not to be Hated on Facebook

YourTango.com, a self-described “community for love, sex, dating and relationship advice” has created an instructional video called “Facebook Manners and You.” Styled after one of those frighteningly cheery ’50’s educational films, the video’s instructions for proper behavior on the “electric friendship generator” is funny in that hits-too-close-to-home sort of way. The etiquette video covers everything from how to dump someone to the best practices for making hate groups . Still, there are a number of Facebook etiquette rules that the video does not cover.

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Teen made $50,000 smuggling drugs across border

Sitting in high school, math and history lessons never captured Danny Santos’ imagination. The drug-fueled streets of the Texas-Mexico border provided his education, and he was an excellent student. Santos says he became one of the thousands of American and Mexican teenagers recruited into the dangerous world of drug smuggling.

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Waterboarding: A Mental as Well as Physical Trauma

In Chile, they called it submarino, a form of simulated drowning that has much the same effect as what we call waterboarding. During Augusto Pinochet’s 17-year-long dictatorship, thousands of Chileans were detained by the military and subjected to torture. During the submarino, they were forcibly submerged in a tank of water, over and over again, until they were on the edge of drowning.

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