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Still, publishers keep spending. The book industry increasingly bears more resemblance to Hollywood's high-rolling studios than to the decorous literary < houses of yore. Most large publishers are now part of corporate conglomerates, which are looking for blockbuster subjects to attract new audiences. "What you've got," says a...
The cartel's need for goods, services and go-betweens has spawned a thriving network of cottage industries. Front companies acquire mobile phones by the dozen and "sublet" them to the cells. The traffickers know investigators need four or five days to get a court-ordered wiretap, so they use...
There are a handful of people who could plausibly answer the frightening questions that date back to 1980. Did Reagan campaign officials conspire with Iran to delay the release of the hostages until after the election? For how long did U.S. officials secretly help supply weapons to Iran? Were they...
The reality of the greenhouse effect is more speculative, though its possible consequences are far deadlier: melting ice caps, flooded coastlines, disrupted climate, parched plains and, ultimately, empty breadbaskets. The American Midwest feeds the world. Are we prepared to see Iowa acquire Albuquerque's climate? And Siberia acquire Iowa's...
But most widespread problems are traceable to the allied devastation of power plants and to the continuing trade embargo. Without electricity, hospitals cannot operate even such basic equipment as incubators or refrigerators needed to store blood and medicine, much less the more sophisticated machinery of operating rooms and intensive-care...