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Not only did the notorious 40 Elephants gang have a name worthy of a great band; the group of tightly-organized smugglers and thieves "had a firm and pitiless grip on London" for nearly 200 years. More »
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• Two high school teachers from Winnipeg have been suspended for performing a lap dance at a pep rally. School officials say the dance was "totally inappropriate" and a 12th grade student called it "dirty." Video after the jump. • More »
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To go from modeling in the 1960s to writing a seminal study of L.A. gang culture in the 90s is uncommon. Léon Bing managed to fit in dating Ed Ruschka and living with Hollywood's leading coke dealer to boot. [NYTimes] More »
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• A 20-year-old woman is seeking restitution for pornographic videos made of her when she was eight years old. The abuse was committed and filmed by her uncle, and the resulting videos became "Internet child porn classics." • More »
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How do you sell pork to women? Liken it to clear nail polish! • A heartbroken man in Taiwan climbed into a morgue freezer in an attempt be with his deceased girlfriend. • A group of Moldovan woman accidentally trespass in a "no girls allowed" Greek monastery after being abandoned by human traffickers in Mount Athos, Greece. • Shortage of Indian women leads female duo to dupe desperate single males out of cash by pretending to be matchmakers. • Teenage girlfriends of gang members are more likely to get pregnant than their peers. • Female judges are perceived as rude by a group of predominately male lawyers. • More female entrepreneurs are reaching for the $1 million revenue mark. • Getting catcalled by pervy doofuses or getting shot by jilted pervy doofuses: these are a young woman's options? • Guardian writer talks to stay-at-home moms about the benefits and repercussions for choosing to be a "full-time mom." • Woman who inspired "Mommy" in the "Family Circus" comic strip has died at the age of 82. • Omega-3 PUFAs may help those with perinatal depression. More »
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In the biggest literary hoax since... well, last week, when that Holocaust memoir turned out to be entirely fabricated, 33-year-old Margaret B. Jones, whose new memoir of foster homes and gang violence, Love and Consequences, has been revealed to be a hoax by the New York Times. In Love and Consequences, Jones — actually Margaret "Peggy" Seltzer — claims to have grown up in South Central L.A., running drugs for the Bloods and watching her foster brothers gunned down by gang members. In reality, Peggy grew up in the sheltered L.A. suburb Sherman Oaks, and attended private Episcopal academy the Campbell Hall School in North Hollywood (Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are fellow Campbell Hall alums). The story even has a soap opera twist: Peggy's sister, 47-year-old Cyndi Hoffman, is the one who blew the whistle on her. More »
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