Ricky Martin wants kids to live la vida libre

Pop star Ricky Martin visited Cambodia to learn more about the fight against child trafficking and sexual exploitation. Most of the victims of human trafficking are between the ages of 18 and 24, and an estimated 1.2 million children are affected each year, according to United Nations figures.

THE 210 TAKE: You might remember Ricky Martin's firsthand experience with child exploitation. It was called “Menudo.”
 

Egg McMuffin creator left a delicious legacy

Herb Peterson, who invented the Egg McMuffin in the early 1970s, has died. Peterson's creation of egg, cheese and grilled Canadian bacon on a toasted and buttered English muffin was inspired by his love of eggs Benedict. The breakfast sandwich filled a void in McDonald's menu and helped start the breakfast-on-the-go trend.

THE 210 TAKE: The Egg McMuffin serves an anchor for McDonald's breakfast menu — and millions of stomachs.

 
Bar's ‘Bum Bot' battles biggest bothers

An Atlanta bar owner is chasing off prostitutes and drug pushers in his neighborhood with his own low-budget RoboCop. The remote-controlled “Bum Bot 2000” is a barbecue smoker mounted on one of those scooters used by the elderly. It's armed with an infrared camera, spotlight, loudspeaker and water cannon that shoots a stream of icy water at up to 200 pounds per square inch.

THE 210 TAKE: Nothing improves safety like turning prostitutes and pushers into wet, angry prostitutes and pushers.
 

UTSA honor code plagiarizes plagiarism

UTSA students drafting an honor code that discouraged cheating and plagiarizing apparently copied another school's code without proper attribution. The draft honor code even plagiarized the definition of the word plagiarism. The student who recently took over the honor code effort called the plagiarism an oversight that will be corrected before the final draft is submitted.

THE 210 TAKE: The honor code creators hotly defended their work, saying: “I am not a crook!”
 

Pooch gives ‘walking the dog' new meaning

Faith is a dog that gets plenty of attention. The 5-year-old chow mix was born with a shriveled left front leg and no right front leg. So her owners taught her to stand, hop and eventually walk on her back legs. Faith has become an Internet sensation and made appearances on talk shows with Oprah and David Letterman.

THE 210 TAKE: There's video of a two-legged walking dog on YouTube? This might explain why we haven't seen President Bush leave his office for two weeks.

With staff and wire reports