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7 Terms You Have To Know When Retiring Overseas

Kathleen Peddicord | Posted 05.06.2013 | Fifty
Kathleen Peddicord

If you enjoy reading stories about the sea and sailing ships, you understand that, to do that, you need a special vocabulary. Read Joseph Conrad tales, for example, and you need to know that petty, poop, port and prop have specific meanings quite apart from what they might conjure up in another context. Similarly, when you move overseas you may need some new vocabulary.

Small Screens, Big Business

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.03.2013 | Crime
Arianna Huffington

In this week's issue, Gerry Smith looks at one of the less savory effects of recent technological innovation: the billion-dollar black market for stolen smartphones. And Lila Shapiro considers the career of former New Jersey Governor James E. McGreevey, nearly a decade after he resigned with the admission that he was "a gay American."

The Decriminalization Downfall

The Brown Daily Herald | Posted 04.11.2013 | College
The Brown Daily Herald

Marijuana decriminalization is a tiny Band-Aid that has been touted as a quick fix for state governments across the country. Want to deal with overflowing prisons? Decriminalize. Want to make citizens happy? Decriminalize. Unfortunately, a Band-Aid is pretty bad at healing a bleeding artery

Venezuela: On the Death of Chávez and the Ailing Bolivar

Steve H. Hanke | Posted 05.12.2013 | World
Steve H. Hanke

How can Venezuela stave off a currency crisis and place its economy back on a solid monetary foundation? The solution is simple: replace the bolivar with the U.S. dollar.

Alice Hines

In The Wake Of Sandy, A Black Market For Candles And Batteries In Chinatown

HuffingtonPost.com | Alice Hines | Posted 10.31.2012 | Business

Less than 48 hours after Hurricane Sandy wiped out all power in lower Manhattan, batteries, candles and flashlights have become as valuable to gold to...

'Shocking Quantities' Of Rat Meat Sold Illegally In London Market

Posted 09.25.2012 | World

"Shocking quantities" of "potentially unsafe" rat meat are being sold illegally in London marketplaces, BBC reports. An undercover investigation co...

10 Luxury Cars That Are Most Likely To Be Stolen

The Huffington Post | Alicia Ciccone | Posted 08.10.2012 | Home

Every 40 seconds a car in the United States is stolen, according to the most recent FBI data on auto theft. While the Toyota Camry takes home the ...

Man Allegedly Smuggled More Than $1 Million Worth Of Fake Cigarettes

AP | Posted 09.01.2012 | Business

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A Chinese national pleaded not guilty Monday to charges that he smuggled more than $1 million worth of fake Marlboro cigarett...

Human Trafficking a Growing Global Scourge

Andrew Lam | Posted 07.29.2012 | Crime
Andrew Lam

Human trafficking is the fastest-growing criminal business in the world, according to the State Department. It ranks only second to drug trafficking in profitability, bringing in an estimated $32 billion annually.

iPad Black Market Falls On Tough Times

Reuters | Gerry Shih, Poornima Gupta and Lee Chyen Yee | Posted 05.26.2012 | Technology

By Gerry Shih, Poornima Gupta and Lee Chyen Yee SAN FRANCISCO/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Early on the morning of March 16, Wong Tat joined a...

How Thieves Stole Priceless Paintings And Got Away With It

Posted 01.09.2012 | Arts

Thieves broke into Greece's National gallery early Monday morning and stole three works of art, including a Picasso and a Mondrian. Picasso's 1939 ...

Shadow Economy World's Second Largest

Posted 01.07.2012 | Business

By Freakonomics: In 2009, the OECD concluded that half the world's workers (almost 1.8 billion people) were employed in the shadow economy. By 202...

NYC Man Pleads Guilty To Selling Kidneys On The Black Market

AP | SAMANTHA HENRY and DAVID PORTER | Posted 12.27.2011 | New York

TRENTON, N.J. — A New York man pleaded guilty Thursday to what experts said was the first ever proven case of black-market organ trafficking in ...

Rhino Horns Worth More Than Gold, Leads To Wave Of Museum Thefts

Posted 10.26.2011 | Arts

Art theft results in an estimated loss of $6 billion each year, but does that take into account the amount people will pay on the black market? The...

What Happens To Art Post-Heist?

Stealing Beauty | Posted 10.07.2011 | Arts

A spate of high-profile art thefts—among them the San Francisco Picasso heist that led to the discovery of a veritable museum in the thief’s Hobok...

Knockoffs And Counterfeits Pose Risks To Your Health

AOL Daily Finance | Loren Berlin | Posted 08.17.2011 | Business

Talking about knockoff jackets with Kevin Spreekmeester, the global marketing vice president for outdoor clothing company Canada Goose, is a bit like ...

Netcare, South African Hospital, Charged in Organ Trafficking

AP | DONNA BRYSON | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

JOHANNESBURG — A major South African hospital chain and its chief executive have been charged after years of investigation into a human organ traffi...

Weekly Pulse: DIY Abortions on the Border, Pawlenty Screws MN on Sex Ed

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
The Media Consortium

Weekly Pulse: DIY Abortions on the Border, Pawlenty Screws MN on SexEd by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Women on along U.S.-Mexico bord...

How Hard Is It to Get a Black Market Green Card in San Francisco?

Harmon Leon | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Harmon Leon

Everyone's entitled to the American Dream. Some wait years to win the green card lottery. To reap the fruits of prosperity, I'm trying to get a green card by mid-afternoon -- no later.

Books About Zen, The Holocaust And Baha'i Banned At Tehran Book Fair

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty | Golnaz Esfandiari | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

Other banned titles include "Power, Islam and the Political Elite in Iran," which Tabnak says makes unfair judgments about Iran, and a book titled "Ze...

Former Iraq Security Contractors Say Firm Bought Black Market Weapons, Swapped Booze For Rockets

ProPublica | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

"We're spending a lot of money on these rifles, millions of dollars -- where do you think that money is going to?" [1] Ronald Boline, a former Triple ...

Poospatuck Tribe May Be Barred From Selling Cigarettes To Non-Members

Newsday | August 26, 2009 | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

In a decision that could put a significant crimp in untaxed cigarette sales from the Poospatuck tribal reservation in Mastic, a federal judge has gran...

Mighty Movie Podcast: A Brisk Trade in Paul Giamatti: Sophie Barthes on Cold Souls

Dan Persons | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Dan Persons

Barthes was willing to give us some insight into her definition of soul and what it's like dealing with actors raised in the land of Stanislavski.

What to Do With a Cantankerous Caiman and Other Exotics That No Longer "Fit" In

Mary Ann West | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Mary Ann West

Connecticut's Exotic Animal Amnesty Day received a total of 135 exotic and potentially dangerous pets within the course of only a few hours.

Egypt's Poor Sell Their Organs For A Steep Price

AP | JASON KEYSER | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

CAIRO — The poverty of Cairo's slums forced a young couple to sell nearly everything they had. When that wasn't enough, each of them sold a kidn...