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...when the cultivation of coca, the source of cocaine, was reduced by half with strong policing and incentive programs to wean peasant farmers onto alternative crops. But that didn't cut the supply to the U.S. market - the drug cartels simply shifted their agribusiness across the border into neighboring Colombia, where the long-running civil war created a healthy environment for an industry on the wrong side...
...Soon it will be possible in the Netherlands for doctors to inject lethal drugs into chronically ill people who want to die. No other nation has formally legalized euthanasia. And though mercy killings have not been criminally punished for years in the Netherlands and a few other places--Colombia and Switzerland among them--there's something creepy about how far the Dutch have gone with the law. When it takes effect in the fall, doctors will be able to euthanize sick children as young as 12, as long as the kids ask and Mom and Dad agree...
...story starts in 1988 when, after 40 years of quiescence, Galeras began a fresh round of unrest that brought Williams and other scientists running to southern Colombia. Because Galeras hovered just a few miles above the city of Pasto (pop. 300,000), the U.N. put the volcano on its list of natural hazards in need of urgent attention. After shaking and coughing small eruptions for months, Galeras squeezed a plug of lava onto the surface that it blew apart in a dramatic eruption on July 16, 1992. Given the mounting activity, Williams had no problem enticing volcano experts from...
...general, of standing by as assassins flew into a remote airport and spent five days slashing the throats of suspected leftist sympathizers in 1997; in Mapiripan. It was the first conviction of a high-ranking military officer of human rights abuses in the decades of violence that have plagued Colombia. Uscategui was sentenced to 40 months in prison. Progress by the government in punishing military officers accused of paramilitary ties is a condition of Colombia receiving $1.2 billion...
...American raised in Mexico, Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador (her father was in the foreign service), educated at Oxford, currently camped out in Baltimore but dreaming of Paris, DeWitt may also be the perfect author for our age of distraction. She appears to have a magpie's fascination with pretty much everything. The other media clamoring for our attention, from the movies to the Internet, are gifts she is delighted to play with. "This is a very exciting time to be writing fiction," she says. "It's so virtuous, completely eschewing all these things that could be explored. We're surrounded...