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...fallow, its 70 head of cattle close to worthless. He can't find a buyer for the ancestral farm, which he is now desperate to sell. An outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease has turned the verdant countryside into a gruesome field of slaughter. The prevailing sound is the crack of pistol shots felling livestock. Farms appear barren save for the smoldering pyres on which hundreds of perfectly healthy animals were incinerated last week. So far McInnes' herd has avoided infection, which means he still has a chance to unload the farm and "pack up and leave...
...decade, and if the American experience of fighting a prolonged battle against drugs is any example, the war may never be totally won. More likely, these countries and societies will have to write off vast swaths of their populations as drug casualties, like the American victims of the '80s crack epidemic...
...Bing, his long black hair half-tied into a ponytail, stands next to a cinder-block wall, rubbing his eyes. Over his head, a thick trail of red army ants runs between a crack in the wall and a smushed piece of pineapple. He reaches into his pocket and pulls out a tissue in which he has wrapped four doa (bodies, the slang for speed tablets). Jacky stops doing her nails, smiles and invites Bing back into her hut, asking sweetly: "Oh Bing, where have you been...
...over to the Dean's Welcome. Here, too, the Junior Parents Weekend Committee has hit the nail on the head. At this event your parents will be welcomed to Harvard in the same way that you were two-and-a-half years ago--by a debonair administrator who will crack a few jokes, flash a toothy smile, assure your parents that the administration cares very much about undergraduates and then disappear for the rest of the weekend. Your parents will have the sneaking suspicion that the encounter is superficial and just for show, but you do want to show them...
...evidence they've collected. A spokesman for the U.S. Customs Service says, "We have the latest systems ... there is no refuge for pedophiles in cyberspace." But that sounds like studied bravado. "Sure, if every computer on the planet spent three months on one of these codes you might crack it," says John Carr, Internet consultant to the British children's charity nch. "But right now, the seesaw is definitely tilting toward the bad guys...