26 People Died and 4 is Missing in Vietnam Floods

16 Dead in Vietnam Flood by tvnportal 26 dead, 38 injured in Vietnam floods   Heavy rains and floods have left at least 26 people as dead while injuring 38 others in Vietnam’s northern and central provinces, said the country’s National Committee for Search and Rescue on Sunday. Floods have submerged over 3,500 houses and […]

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Why Legalizing Marijuana Makes Sense

Correction Appended: April 16, 2009 For the past several years, I’ve been harboring a fantasy, a last political crusade for the baby-boom generation. We, who started on the path of righteousness, marching for civil rights and against the war in Vietnam, need to find an appropriately high-minded approach to life’s exit ramp

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American defector Charles Jenkins

In 1965, U.S. Army Sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins deserted his post in South Korea and fled to the communist Northa move he now calls “the stupidest thing I have ever done.” He spent nearly four decades inside the Hermit Kingdom, as a lingering mystery of the cold war.

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