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...villages in eastern Bosnia's autonomous Serb Republic: that of Dr. Radovan Karadzic. Following the transfer in June of Slobodan Milosevic to the Hague, Karadzic, the Bosnian-Serb leader during the war, is the U.N. war-crime tribunal's most-wanted man. Reports have placed him in these remote, cloud-draped mountains or just across the border in Montenegro. In Foca, he does not lack support. "I am in love with him," says a woman in her 50s who refuses to give her real name. "If he is arrested, we will rise up." She gestures at a portrait...
...restaurant owners. Originally from Khon Kaen in the northeast, Weerayuth, 25, with a sixth-grade education, started selling insects when he came to Bangkok five years ago. He grosses about $1,000 a day, clears about $225, and says business is getting better every year. The only cloud on the horizon: Thailand is running out of bugs. A lot are being consumed, but most have fallen prey to rural overuse of insecticides. (That has caused an ecological imbalance: when the insect population dipped, so did that of birds and reptiles that feed on them. And as those are natural predators...
...secret of all secrets. I didn't feel any fear. Some of us felt like a cloud had been lifted because there was now a target. For the previous 10 years in Japan, we had less and less of everything. Kids dug up roots of pine trees and squeezed them for oil. Junior-high kids were forced to work in bomb factories. People had to give their rice cookers and frying pans to the government to make weapons...
...ruling lifts the cloud of breakup over the company," Bill Gates exulted at a press conference last week. Moments later from the same podium, Microsoft spokesman Jeff Raikes echoed: "I'm sure you'll understand, especially if you live in Seattle, the feeling of the sun breaking through the clouds." CEO Steve Ballmer chimed in a short time later, "The sun was definitely shining a little bit in Seattle...
...year-old daughter was gang-raped and murdered by the Khmer Rouge. She came through the darkness by "forgetting, loving, working" and now helps others do the same. He visits Greenland, where depression affects as much as 80% of the population. Yet the Inuits' taboo against "being a cloud in the sky for other people" prevents them from seeking help. Solomon's tales of suffering among America's poor, where depression occurs three times as often as among the general population, were rejected by a big-circulation newsmagazine as so "implausibly horrendous it becomes comical." Yet poorer people are often...