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...many militants are still at large, most notably Nurdin. Shadowy and less flamboyant than Azahari, Nurdin was given responsibility for planning and executing J.I.'s bombing campaign, which was launched by the group's operations supremo Riduan Isamuddin (a.k.a. Hambali) at a terrorism summit in Bangkok in early 2002. (Hambali was arrested in Thailand in 2003 and is in U.S. custody.) As J.I.'s chief strategist, and as a charismatic recruiter, Nurdin is more dangerous than Azahari, says Sidney Jones, who heads the Southeast Asia office of the International Crisis Group. What's more, adds terrorism expert Zachary Abuza...
When Bob Grinstead landed in Bangkok in March with his wife and daughter, he might have been mistaken for a typical tourist. But the 70-year-old retired computer salesman from Atlanta wasn't in any shape for sightseeing. Since suffering a massive heart attack in 1990, he'd undergone two bypass surgeries and two dozen angioplasties. By last year, any physical effort brought on chest pains - even taking a shower left him exhausted. After his doctors told him there was nothing more they could do, Grinstead turned to the Internet for ideas. Countless searches and phone calls later...
...process is surprisingly simple. After arriving in Bangkok, the patient has about 250 cc of blood drawn?less than a standard blood donation. This is sent to the company's laboratory in Israel, where stem cells that occur naturally in the blood are isolated and multiplied through a patented process. A week later, a batch of several million stem cells is returned to Bangkok. These are inserted by surgeons into the patient's arteries or heart, using procedures that Patel helped to develop in the U.S. Patel says that when the cells are released into coronary arteries using an angioplasty...
...clinical trials reported in U.S. medical journals, Patel's procedures have improved the heart's pumping ability by 20-70%. But that doesn't mean you should book a ticket to Bangkok the minute you start feeling chest pains. As the therapy is still experimental, only those classified by doctors as "no option"?meaning that conventional solutions such as angioplasty and bypass surgery have been exhausted?are eligible. "These patients are really sick," says TheraVitae spokesman Jay Lenner Jr. "We can give people a second chance." Those interested in the treatment, which costs about $30,000 (including most expenses...
...food on the table. It's understandable that Weil's book is addressed to a small population of élitist baby boomers who engage, as a habit, in the luxury of worrying about their wrinkles. But is this narrow point of view relevant to all your readers? Regent Lamoureux Bangkok Suicide Recruiter Your story on the Iraqi insurgent leader "Abu Qaqa al-Tamimi" (a pseudonym), who trains and equips suicide bombers [Oct. 24], provided another example of the dangerous weeds that grow in the pastures of religion. Killing Americans and his own people is what al-Tamimi does. He uses...