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...grimmest examples of how the collapse of government authority will blight the land and its people for generations is unfolding at the northern tip of the island of Sulawesi, where, like Femmy, thousands of people work in illegal gold mines and processing units. When Jakarta's word still counted, the army would have thrown out the miners?as they did at other similar sites?and allowed Australian firm Aurora Gold, which had won rights to mine the area, to go about its business. Even critics of the mining company say its modern equipment would have produced a fraction...
...mosquito-infested marshes south of Rome in the 1930s, malaria struck the city with such deadly regularity each summer that it was called the Roman fever. Last week two British scientists said they have found what may be the first genetic evidence that the killer disease was a blight on life in ancient Rome as well...
...less charming secrets: the ubiquitous dog excrement that turns many Parisian sidewalks into veritable minefields of shoe-defiling muck. But following the example of famous creators before him who drew inspiration from the picturesque details of Parisian life, a civic-minded artist has embraced the City of Light's blight by using selected piles of poop to denounce dog owners who refuse to pick up after their pooches...
...story--written by The New Yorker's Anthony Hiss '63--credits Bartley's, then called the Harvard Spa Luncheonette, with alleviating "The Great Hamburg Blight" that had previously plagued the Square...
...banking finally freeing itself from the money-laundering blight? Maybe not. The FATF report cited a new and disturbing channel through which money launderers can escape attention: the Internet. So far there have been no cases of money laundering detected on the Net. But that may only mean that criminals are very good at it already...