stranger than fiction

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Subject: stranger than fiction
From: Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:39:38 -0700
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from Harper's Weekly: > the market price for children in India slipped
below that of buffalo.<

is this due to low demand, high supply, or both?

also in the news:

Gaytanamo: Hardcore, a film set in the "sexiest secret military prison ever," was being sold at a discount on the Internet.

In Miami, the Department of Corrections was housing registered sex offenders under a bridge. <


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Jim Devine /  "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your
own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.