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...nation already buzzing on hyperalert, almost any outbreak of an unusual malady was sure to raise the specter of a bioterrorist attack (see story below). Last week there were two such reports: an anthrax death in Florida and a cluster of cases of a virulent hemorrhagic fever along the Afghan-Pakistani border. Easy to forget but worth remembering is the fact that bacteria and viruses, even unconventional ones, do occasionally sweep through human hosts...
...immigrants who sometimes clog the rugged roads to Votanikos, the thriving trend-setting part of Athens. Within minutes, you'll be stunned by the sight of Athinais, an architectural oasis designed by one of Richard Branson's favorite visionaries, Tom Gazetas. Formerly a silk factory sandwiched between a cluster of auto-repair shops, the 6,500-sq-m stone Athinais in now home to the first museum of ancient Cypriot art in Greece, with one of the rarest collections of its kind in the world...
Though spontaneous debates sporadically erupt between strangers and amateur theologians, who cluster around the subway entrances off 14th Street, New Yorkers in lower Manhattan seem to have devoted more time to mourning and recovering than to contentious political rallies...
...earth yields little above ground. But just a few meters down, the earth turns black and hard. The coal is tantalizingly easy to reach; so are the lethal pockets of gas that cause explosions or asphyxiate workers. Zhang's husband, Li Zhenhua, had worked for a decade in a cluster of small, illegal mines near his Duck Pond village. Whenever an accident claimed lives, the pit would be ordered to close?but another would invariably open not far away. Much of the illegal mining is done at night to avoid government monitors. In any case, the inspectors don't have...
...abstracted mode that I trailed a Tony Rizzo "Trophy Tail" - consisting of "pulsating spinner, breathing marabou, and life-like squid tail," altogether a hideously succulent mouthful of black rubber glinting here and there with sequins and harboring a cluster of deadly and barely noticeable hooks - across central Ontario's Elephant Lake yesterday, running the boat at that rapid trolling speed that gives muskies an appetite and the impulse to lunge...