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...four steps ahead of you at every turn," says Norris Gelman, one of Einhorn's attorneys. As if hypnotized, the suits responded with free lunches, grants, consulting contracts, four-figure speaking fees. A local communications company hired Einhorn to mediate a neighborhood power-plant dispute, then for years afterward sponsored his space travel by mailing copies of his scribblings and those of other "forward thinkers" to a growing list of international contacts...
Judging by the way they kept congratulating him on his obfuscation afterward, most of the assembled congressmen missed it completely, but Alan Greenspan rarely gets clearer than this: The Fed is back on the move...
...With more anecdotal evidence and lawsuits every month, the pressure is mounting. In May, a British study of 200 passengers over the age of 50 taking flights of eight hours or longer found one in 10 developed early signs of DVT afterward. In February, a 10-year-old girl was struck down with DVT after a 13-hour flight from London to Hong Kong, during which she slept in an economy-class seat without moving. Since the beginning of the year, separate DVT suits have been filed against Cathay Pacific, Delta Airlines, Air France and Greece's Olympic Airlines. Australian...
...excesses of the Cultural Revolution of Mao Zedong. The government has launched a drive to secure 1 million children's signatures opposing Falun Gong. In the lakefront city of Hangzhou in eastern China, grammar-school students recently attended a lecture by their principal on the evils of the group. Afterward, students took turns facing their classmates to swear: "I do not believe in Falun Gong. I believe in science." Eight-year-old Yu Xiaohong stunned his teachers by striding forward and declaring, "I do not believe in Falun Gong. I believe in Jesus." The teachers, uneasy with any open expression...
...from Jakarta by bus one evening when anti-Jakarta fighters stopped the vehicle and singled out the non-Acehnese for execution. Idrusman made the mistake of speaking up for three Javanese colleagues with whom he was traveling. All four had their throats cut. Van Schaik abandoned his mission soon afterward. He now spends most of his time teaching at Duke University in North Carolina and has never been able to return to the Sumatra swamps that were so central to his life's work. He can't carry on his experiments because, he laments, the human-trained orangutans are "intellectual...