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Nor is she likely to weed out crooked officers. An estimated 75% of the military's cash comes from "nonbudgetary sources," as local economists euphemistically call it, which include logging in Indonesia's vanishing rain forests, extortion and prostitution. Jakarta's red-light district was shut down in the spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fire Over Indonesia | 8/6/2001 | See Source »

Van Schaik, seeking to find that control group of orangutans to answer those great questions about men and monkeys that could only be answered here in the wild, crossed the Simpang-kiri river, persuading the illegal loggers to give him rides through unending kilometers of rotting stumps and splintered branches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hanging On | 7/2/2001 | See Source »

Before coming to Washington in 1996, Pickard spent much of his career in the bureau's flagship New York office, where he played a crooked accountant in the Abscam undercover case and later supervised the World Trade Center bombing investigation, the extradition and prosecution of terrorist mastermind Ramzi Yousef and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Agents Like the New Acting FBI Head | 6/28/2001 | See Source »

NBC's "The Bold Ones" will be getting bolder, mainly by knifing into such delicate surgical issues as embryo transplants and lobotomy. The lobotomy episode will also depict that rarity on TV medical shows: a crooked doctor. No new adventure hero, it seems, will be admitted to the schedule without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Team Behind Archie Bunker & Co. | 6/25/2001 | See Source »

Not all of Taiwan's morticians are crooked. And police say there is no conclusive proof that any of them have connections to Taiwan's largest organized crime gangs. But a walk down the Taipei street where the ramshackle offices of most of the city's funeral companies are located...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grave Stakes | 6/18/2001 | See Source »

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