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...young daughters and I will pack our suburban minivan with 2 1/2 gal. of water per person per day and head off to northern Nevada. There, in thousands of square miles of pure desert nothingness, 20,000 cheering, dancing celebrants will circle a towering, two-legged wooden sculpture and burn it to the ground...
...intestines. Before ingesting the drugs, they fast for several days, then swallow cooking oil for lubrication. Next, the oblong packets are placed in their esophagus with pliers and shoved down their throat. If a condom rips or is corroded by stomach acid during a long flight delay, the drugs burn, slowly, through the internal organs. On arrival the mules are taken to a hotel room by gang members and given large doses of laxative. "The most I have seen a man carry is 56," Tobon says. He estimates that about 5% of the couriers die en route...
...Peov on any tribunal chosen to judge him, for the reason that they are the enduring casualties of his work. I picture them at the trial. They hear the evidence against him, inspect the photos of the hills of skulls and learn all that this monster did to burn over their country. But in the end it is they who condemn him--they and tens of thousands of other Cambodians now in their 20s who remember too much and wake up screaming like children...
...baby shark's back and registers every beat of the tail as the shark swims along. By feeding the babies a precise amount of fish, then putting them in a tank with constantly flowing water--a sort of shark treadmill--he can determine just how many calories they burn in swimming a given distance...
...have a primitive but highly active immune system, which may play a role. Their resistance to cancer, however, has nothing to do with their cartilage, despite extravagant claims by people who peddle shark-cartilage pills. While the cartilage has proved promising as an ingredient in temporary artificial skin for burn patients, no proof whatever exists that it can prevent tumors in humans...