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Facebook to the rescue, saving a pup from the war in Afghanistan

It started with a picture of the puppy on Ronny Perryman’s Facebook page and an innocent ‘Like’ of the picture. Perryman, a senior NCO in the US Army’s 24th Infantry Division stationed in Afghanistan, had posted the pup’s picture after his unit had adopted the stray they’d found in a drainage pipe after a firefight. [...]

Buying a Brazilian thong in Rio

As a joke, I told her that—if she were nice to me—I would buy her “one of those Brazilian thongs.” It was really just a silly comment at the end of my email as I rushed out the door to meet the driver who was taking me to the airport. A day later, finally in [...]

Revised on December 14, 2010