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...SYMPTOMS Shortly after exposure through a cut or other break in the skin, a small, itchy bump appears. In some cases, a rash may develop. In another few days, the lesion fills up with fluid and develops into a painless ulcer 1 to 3 cm in diameter. Not long afterward, the lesion turns black, a hallmark of skin anthrax, as tissue begins...
...trucking-school executive has given the FBI a promising lead: 25 to 35 Arab men attended a Denver school in small groups over the past two years. Each student paid cash for the program--and none sought job placement afterward. Because none of the students spoke English, they were accompanied by an interpreter, the same person for each group. Even though English proficiency is a license requirement, all the Arab students received driver's licenses, trucking sources say. (It's not clear how they passed the written test, which is in English.) Charlie Tweedy, the owner of Careers Worldwide...
...after me," he instructed. Before long, the gymnasium broke into a rousing call-and-response chant. It could have been a school pep rally, except that many of the students and teachers had their heads bowed, and they were calling out prayers for each other and peace on earth. "Afterward we asked our teachers, 'Is he actually allowed to do that?'" recalls senior Ankur Shah, 16, a Hindu who as a young child moved to America from India. "Can he pray in a public school...
...West, I felt like a loner and an outcast--a feeling that began when my mother died when I was 14 and when, shortly afterward, I was ripped from my home in New Orleans because my father was transferred to Richardson, Texas. That sense of alienation intensified over the years as I moved to California to work my way through college and then stayed on. At first I loved the freedom and radical spirit of the place. But as the years passed, I became bitter about not going home. I really didn't fit in with my liberal friends...
Bringing back the King has its drawbacks. Zahir Shah is 86, and many Afghans resent the fact that throughout the brutal war against the Soviets and the turmoil afterward, he remained aloof from their suffering, silent in his gilded exile. But already a groundswell for his return is growing among the Pashtun tribes in Afghanistan along the frontier. Reports are sketchy, but in the southern Afghan provinces of Khost, Paktia and Paktika influential tribal elders are so worried about rising support for the King among their clansmen that they are threatening to burn down the houses of anyone caught switching...