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When you break your neck and sever your spine, leaving your legs and hands paralyzed, you don't expect to drive a car. Of course, driving isn't your first concern. There are more elementary needs, like getting across a room or lifting a fork or signing your name...
...while to the government of Hun Sen. The last Khmer Rouge bigwig still at large, Ta Mok, a one-legged general known as the Butcher, was captured in March and now awaits trial. For the first time in more than a generation, there are no Cambodians in refugee camps across the border in Thailand, and the Khmer Rouge, held responsible for the death of 1.7 million Cambodians during their four years in power alone, are silent...
...been quite an experience," says Jack Marshall, founder of Photoloft.com which moves pictures across the Net. His stock, traded on the NASDAQ bulletin board, is down 66%, to less than $3 a share. All 32 of his employees have stock options. The collapse "hasn't really hurt morale because business is so good, we all know we're here for the long term," he says. Still, at many Net firms, the early-year euphoria of optioned employees is gone. Net investors, many of them day-trading online, have had a comeuppance as well. Losses have driven thousands...
...Alaska Marine Conservation Council, notes that fishing boats aiming to catch pollack dump halibut and salmon over the side and that the value of wasted fish in the Bering Sea is equivalent to 25% of the revenues from the entire fishery. Many trawlers drag nets and other gear across the sea floor, destroying the habitat of all the animals that live on the bottom. International agreements restrict the size of fishing nets, but environmental groups like the World Wildlife Fund urge stronger action: enforcing a new agreement to stop bottom trawling for pollack, reducing the pressure on certain areas...
...military power," says Dowell. "They?re very aware of the need to avoid making huge threats from which they later have to back down." In the future, though, don't expect Beijing to cease from periodically testing U.S. resolve to get involved in the 50-year-old conflict across the Taiwan Strait...