NewYork Times

Former white-collar workers go to great lengths to keep their new jobs, like deckhand on a crab boat or back-scrubber in a bathhouse, from family and friends.<br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/> <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=ad3039083957f3d2192b991577b1d5a7&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=ad3039083957f3d2192b991577b1d5a7&p=1"/></a>

Almost 4,000 U.S. Marines moved to clear insurgents from the hotly contested Helmand River valley before the nation’s Aug. 20 presidential election.<br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/> <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=d72cff1caca6b58da5d959b3df9e40a0&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=d72cff1caca6b58da5d959b3df9e40a0&p=1"/></a>

The new launches could exacerbate the tensions running high since the U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution last month against North Korea.<br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/> <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=6dfd0e200961221f9a9dc50154819392&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=6dfd0e200961221f9a9dc50154819392&p=1"/></a>

In a ruling that could usher in an era of greater freedom for gays and lesbians in India, New Delhi’s highest court decriminalized homosexuality.<br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/> <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=7d0ea087771b0674324ed3223fce1fea&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=7d0ea087771b0674324ed3223fce1fea&p=1"/></a>

Hard-line Islamist charities are using a refugee crisis to sour public opinion about the United States.<br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/> <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=75b8e3ddb9ed92033a215f04d4ecc3a7&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=75b8e3ddb9ed92033a215f04d4ecc3a7&p=1"/></a>

The Rev. Thadeus Nguyen Van Ly, a human rights advocate, was sentenced to eight years in prison in 2007 on charges of spreading anti-government propaganda.<br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/> <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=ffb5672af27cb16a233b1e2428252d94&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=ffb5672af27cb16a233b1e2428252d94&p=1"/></a>