With so many people to drive around, it’s no wonder the Chinese taxicab business sector is so competitive, but authorities are finally doing something about those unlicensed cabs that are ruining perfectly legitimate companies.
To show the world they are committed to riding China of illegal taxi cabs, authorities in Chengdu have invited 50 taxi drivers to publicly destroy 140 illegal vehicles, captured by the police. Armed with iron bars, the drivers released all their anger and frustration on their competition’s cars, until they reduced them to mere scrap metal.
You could say it happened just like in Disney’s “Little Mermaid”, only in this true life case, the mermaid needed a little help from a surgeon.
The appropriately named Milagros Cerron, is a Peruvian girl,born with a rare condition, known as sirenomelia, or “mermaid syndrome“, which left her legs bound together, fro her heels, all the way to her groin.
The Little Mermaid, as she is known, in her native Peru, has just turned six years old, and she has made great progress. Dr. Luis Rubio, head of the surgical team that managed to separate Milagros’ legs, and rebuild her knees, hips and ankles, said she was doing very well, physically, but that she still has a long way to go.
Eminem announces that his "overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be," an argument that obviously extends to his views on gay marriage.
At one point during the piece — which will appear in the Sunday, June 20, issue of the mag — Em is asked by the Times' Deborah Solomon if he'd support a gay marriage bill in his home state of Michigan. Reasonably surprisingly, he said yes ... in his own, uniquely acerbic way, of course.
50 Cent has been athletic for years, so lovers were shocked when photos of the G-Unit chief looking shockingly skinny hit the Internet on Wednesday.
The text related to the photos, which appear in the new Us Magazine and on ThisIs50.com, say that the rapper lost weight to 160 pounds (from 214) for "Things Fall Apart," a movie he penned himself and stars in, about a cancer-stricken football player.
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