Letters (San Diego Reader)

3 September 2008, 2:58 pm

How Low Can You Go? Just took a gander at this week’s offering. All that I can say is egads! Leading off with an article about obtaining pentobarbital in TJ to off yourself (“Suicide Tourism,” Cover Story, August 21)? Then trying to smuggle it back to Australia or New Zealand?... read more

Didn't He Ramble? (San Diego Reader)

3 September 2008, 12:14 pm

Girls just wanna have fun, and aging-boomer foodie girls especially wanna have fun at the table (as other options become scarcer). Tabule offers that kind of culinary gambol. (Not gamble — I didn’t taste anything awful.)... read more

MEXIDATA . INFO (MEXIDATA . INFO)

1 September 2008, 8:04 am

Good evening. I know that Mexico is facing a serious problem of safety. This is a cancer that has developed over the years, when it was not properly treated, but it is a cancer we shall eradicate.... read more

Squire of the Peninsula (San Mateo Daily Journal)

1 September 2008, 12:11 am

In 1933 John William “Squire” Marchbank, gambler and saloon operator from Daly City, quickened the pulse of Peninsula gamblers as he re-opened the Tanforan race track in San Bruno after pari-mutual betting was legalized.... read more

Fear of kidnapping grips Mexico (Los Angeles Times)

31 August 2008, 10:26 pm

The number is rising, and the rich are not the only ones targeted. Criminals sometimes want as little as $500. Perhaps nothing reveals this country's kidnapping dread better than one product now on offer from a Mexican company: a tiny transmitter that is implanted under the skin to beam the perso... read more

Hundreds of thousands of Mexicans protest crime (Boston Globe)

30 August 2008, 11:46 pm

Hundreds of thousands of frustrated Mexicans, many carrying pictures of kidnapped loved ones, marched across the country Saturday to demand government action against a relentless tide of killings, abductions and shootouts.... read more

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