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...Schweitzer could find no American publisher willing to finance the research project. The Pentagon, weary of con artists peddling phony stories of U.S. prisoners still said to be alive in Southeast Asia, at first brushed him off. Schweitzer finally reached Deputy Assistant Defense Secretary Carl Ford, who recognized that the Vietnamese were prepared to hand over something of a treasure trove...
...NIGHTCLUB IN DOWNTOWN Manhattan is swarming with reporters, cameramen, Internet bohemians and online celebrities, people with handles like "Mnemonic," "Razor" and "Garbled Uplink." The center of attention -- a fashionably wan, cigarette-smoking ex-con known as Phiber Optik -- shows up an hour late, even though the party is in his honor. Phiberphest '95, they're calling it. Onstage is a band called Foamola, consisting of a bald male organist, a homeless man playing what appear to be a pair of rocks and a female vocalist who yowls, "When I read a book, I always read Balzac!/ When I take...
...prosecution's case, should it ever reach trial, will inevitably conjure up the carnage that took place at New York City's Audubon Ballroom 30 years ago next month, as Malcolm X, former con man and thief who had joined the Nation of Islam (NOI) while in prison and become the foremost spokesman of its fiercely proud and racist party line, played out his final political incarnation. After revealing that his mentor, Elijah Muhammad, had fathered several illegitimate children, Malcolm had split with the Nation. He had founded a splinter group, traveled to Mecca, adopted a more tolerant political philosophy...
...number of other research teams in the United States and Europe are also studying the effects of lead con centrations in bone using the new technology, said Dr. Philip J. Landrigan of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York...