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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2009840664_apununchildmortality.html
Before the 1970s, the US had about the same percentage of its people in prison as in other countries. However, US prison population has nearly tripled since then and now the US has by far the highest incarceration rate in the world. The US has 5% of the world's population and 25% of the world's prisoners:
http://www.theweek.com/article/index/100575/The_prison_nation
Columbian police seized $22 million in cash from a ship that left from Manzanillo, Mexico. Smugglers apparently ship the cocaine to Manzanillo from that port (the drugs are then smuggled across the border to the US) and then the cash is sent back to Columbia:
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/colombia-cash-seizure-swells-to-22-mn-2009-09-11
Tufts College actually had to ban having sex in the dorms if a person's roommate was present:
http://news.aol.com/article/dorm-sex-ban-at-tufts-university/692852
The 19.2-pound newborn from Indonesia has been attracting crowds who want a peak at such a big baby:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/25/19-pound-baby-akbar-risud_n_299757.html
Deputy who was fired in Florida because of his problems with alcohol sued the sheriff, saying that they discriminated against him because his alcoholism is a disability:
http://www.wtsp.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=114071
Unemployed man searched all around using a $4 metal detector, ignoring taunts from passing cars and others around him. People stopped making fun of him when he discovered the largest and most valuable hoard of Saxon gold in history!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1215723/Staffordshire-hoard-Amateur-treasure-hunter-finds-Britains-biggest-haul-Anglo-Saxon-gold.html