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Karachi police chief Syed Kamal Shah told TIME that investigators believe the kidnapping and murder of U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl was patronized by "foreigners"--a standard code word for al-Qaeda. Pakistani investigators say al-Qaeda's fingerprints are hard to detect, but they believe that bin Laden's network may have been behind the May attack that killed 11 French technicians on a bus in Karachi and the June bombing of the U.S. consulate in Karachi that killed 12 Pakistanis...
...they've paid $25 a head to do it. The good news is that these are 2,200 people who make me look like the young John Travolta. These are the people you see on convention floors, who are referred to as the party "faithful," which I suspect is code for "loser." They shake JANET RENO FOR GOVERNOR signs more than their booties. Never having been at a club where I felt at all cool, I use the opportunity to approach five women in half shirts and low-slung jeans and buy them Absolut and Red Bulls. I ask Nicole...
...with those of the central government, life might go on much as before. But increasingly they are not, and abuses have transformed China from a straightjacketed but ordered society into another chaotic and corrupt developing country. Across northern China, for example, local officials are ignoring a more forgiving tax code championed by Beijing and instead are forcing peasants to pay exorbitant taxes on land that ceased to be fertile years ago. In other places such as Henan, Fujian and Gansu provinces, local bosses have taken central government funds for combating drugs, human smuggling and HIV, and used them to build...
...Shanghai to northern Ningxia province is more expensive than shipping it from Detroit to Shanghai because truckers have to pay a toll?read bribe?every time their load of new cars crosses a provincial border. An Australian lawyer in Shanghai says she discarded her copy of the Chinese legal code when it became clear local party officials were ignoring national regulations. "No one seems to pay much attention to laws," she says, "unless they can figure out a way to make a profit from them...
...heated debate among biologists. Eckard Wimmer, a microbiologist at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, led a team that built a copy of the polio virus by assembling more than 7,000 base pairs of DNA to match a published record of the virus's genetic code. Some scientists say the research, while an impressive technical feat, creates needless fears in a population already skittish about anthrax and smallpox. "Why did [Wimmer] pick a human disease which conjures up terrifying images?" asks Stanford University biowarfare expert Steven Block, who points out that scientists have long known that...