Get your beach gear ready, ladies and gentlemen! We're heading to sunny Miami for this DVD review triple feature! Nothing's hotter than the Florida sun and hip-hop, and we get a triple threat treat from Slip-N-Slide Records! The weather may be getting ugly in Florida right now, but these three DVDs may help die hard hip-hop fans weather the storm and remind them of warmer days.

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Army deserter recalls abuse in N. KoreaRALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A U.S. Army deserter who spent decades in North Korea says his communist keepers abused him and controlled every aspect of his life, down to telling him how often to have sex.

"It was the worst mistake anyone ever made," Charles Jenkins said. "In words, I cannot express the feelings I have towards North Korea, the harassment I go...

Clinton example, coverage influenced teens' view of sex I think something valuable was missing from USA TODAY's cover story "Teens define sex in new ways" .

Let's not forget that the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal — including President Clinton's denials and tortured definitions of what is and is not sexual contact — was broadcast through all media formats during the formative ye...

Ozzie's world filled with smiles, energy and abilityBy Mike Dodd, USA TODAYCHICAGO - Don't look for any curtains or fiery thrones around this Wizard of Oz. The manager of the American League champion Chicago White Sox hides behind nothing.

Two years after talking his way into his dream job, Ozzie Guillen is granting the wishes of generations of long-suffering baseball fans in Chicago an...

His four team members are Jody Kent, president of a public relations firm, Debra Jewett, a team assistant to the staff of Hospice of the Valley in a care unit in Sun City, Ryan Winfield, a Glendale police sex-crimes detective, and Maggie Cashdollar, who teaches eighth-grade language arts and reading in the Osborn School District.

Alternate team members are Any Ochoa, manager of a trophy-a...

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October 20, 2005 - Condoleezza Rice and Senator Hillary Clinton are rumored to be potential candidates for the Presidential race in '08. So could it happen? Is the U.S. ready for its first female president, and are Iowans ready to pass one through the political pipeline?

She already exists on television. On ABC's Commander...

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By salty sailor on Thursday October 20, 2005 at 9:12 pm MST (#85861)

Foxnews carried the story and followed it to trial. Its one of the reasons other news outlets hate...

New film keeps network 'Trafficking' in social issues

"Strong Medicine"; "The Division"; "Missing"; "The 'I Do' Diaries"; "Merge"; "Wild Card"; and "Head 2 Toe."

'Ladies and gentlemen, the United States is one of the largest markets for sex slavery in the entire world. We need to realize that modern-day slavery is only occurring because we choose to ignore it."

If these ...

Parents' group warns against Fox showsNEW YORK (AP) - Four Fox network programs, led by the comedies The War at Home,The Family Guy and American Dad, topped a parents group's annual listing of the worst prime-time shows for family viewing.

The Parents Television Council rated two aspirational reality shows, ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and NBC's new Three Wishes, as the best p...

'Happy' housewives finally get their due By Carol Memmott, USA TODAYDarla Shine has just gotten out of the shower, the dog is barking, someone's at the front door, and her children soon will be home from school.

"This is my life as the happy housewife," she says with a laugh.

Happy Housewives (ReganBooks, $24.95) also is the name of her just-released book, subtitled I was a whin...