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Prostitutes gear up for Olympic sex By Phil Mercer in Sydney Thousands of prostitutes in Australia are gearing up for a sex boom during this year's Olympics. Brothels are planning an advertising blitz in newspapers and on the internet in preparation for the arrival in Sydney in September of millions of extra tourists. Some parlour owners are rushing to build new premises to cash in. Others are looking to recruit workers from overseas to help meet the expected surge in demand. The games run for a fortnight in September. Sex industry Maria McMahon is manager at the Sydney-based Sex Workers ...

FW Student Suspended Over Knife Incident FORT WORTH Jan 10 -- A Fort Worth high school star athlete has received a taste of the district's zero tolerance policy after bringing a knife to campus. The student, Taylor Moore, said he used an ordinary kitchen knife as a tool to make repairs to the wiring of his car stereo one day last September. The Polytechnic High School junior said school officials observed the knife on the car floor the next day as they were making a routine check of student vehicles. Moore said he was questioned, then suspended for 18 weeks ...

Mother Loses Round in Controversial Custody Hearing Updated 6.11 p.m. ET (2311 GMT) November 8, 1999 By Michael Y. Park By many accounts, Tina Phifer was a model mother who doted on her 9-year-old daughter, Amkia, took her to ballet lessons, was meticulous about keeping her on a healthy diet and home-schooled the girl so well that she scored above her peers on intelligence tests. But according to a city agency, Phifer overstepped her bounds and now deserves to be stripped of her rights as a parent. On the recommendations of the Administration for Children's Services (ACS), Amkia hasn't lived ...