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...justice system. Local jails designed to hold convicts until they are sentenced often find that when the time comes to transfer them, the prisons are full. In Michigan, 10,000 criminals have gained early release under a state law that caps the prison population. In every state, more and deadlier inmates are joining America's more than 1.5 million probationers, many of whom receive only cursory supervision...
...initial stage. Groups like White's contact mosques, tribal leaders, militias and even former intelligence agents in search of news about the victim. Because the low-level gangs are after cash, a quick payout might free the hostage before he is "sold up" to groups with less easily deciphered, deadlier agendas. Such deals can be lucrative: prices paid range from $10,000 to $100,000, according to White, with U.S. soldiers fetching the highest rate...
...Indeed, some question whether the polio program makes economic sense. The WHO estimates that 5 million cases of polio have been averted since 1988. But $3 billion was spent achieving that result?or $600 for every case avoided. Critics say the money would be better spent attacking deadlier diseases such as malaria, which kills at least a million a year...
...militants in Gaza. They say the materiel comes via African countries where Hizballah has a network among Lebanese emigres. Israeli intelligence officers confirm that Sudan is a major source, but say most of the guns and bombs still originate in Lebanon. They believe Palestinian groups are trying to acquire deadlier plastic explosives, and fear that the tunnels could also be used to import Katyusha missiles into Gaza. In the face of such threats, Israel does not seem likely to end its aggressive tactics anytime soon...
...enough for the invasion and occupation of Iraq; now they want 20 times that many. The U.S. death toll in April 2003, the month Baghdad fell, was 37; the number killed in hostilities in April 2004 climbed to 107 last week, a reminder that winning a war can be deadlier than fighting it in the first place. "There's a rumor that Bush is going to redeclare war here. Have you heard it?" asks a 1st Cavalry Division private on patrol as he mans a machine gun in a Baghdad slum. "It's a good idea. Right now we drive...