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...Puffing on a magnificent Cohiba cigar at his home beside the Tigris River, Jumaluddin tries to put the rocky start of local democracy in perspective. "Iraqis don't know what democracy is," he says. He tries to explain the challenge by relating a joke that is making the rounds in Baghdad: "An old woman asks her son, 'What is this democracy I hear so much about? What does it mean?' Her son tells her that every four years there will be a new President. 'Isn't that wonderful, Mother?' The old woman thinks about it for a moment, and then...
...coffee outside his favorite Caltex station, Anand Supapdee ponders the future of his white pickup truck and concludes its days are numbered. "It's the ghosts," says 47-year-old Anand. "We have to change our cars every few years when they get haunted." Before he can explain, a static-coated voice issues from his handheld shortwave radio. Several kilometers away on a rain-slicked stretch of Bangkok's Boromratchanee Road, a black Toyota sedan has plowed into the back of a truck carrying sacks of cement. Anand, one of hundreds of Bangkok residents who voluntarily help...
...long, he was sucked into that "conventional wisdom of consultants, pollsters and strategists," having hired what seemed to be several thousand of them. But it wasn't the consultants or Jim Jordan or even Howard Dean who was poisoning his campaign. It was Kerry and his utter inability to explain his vote on Iraq...
...line. Orange life vests are dispatched to the Indonesians (most of whom decide to use them as comfortable seats). While the small, unstable vessel pitches and rolls, the officers search for further evidence in the bilge water and interview the fishermen about their voyage. They also try to explain to the detainees - skinny boys and craggy grandfathers who live on fish and a cup of rice a day - what will happen to them. Cummins wants to hook up with Quarantine officials on Thursday Island before they call it a day. Otherwise, the ACV crew will be babysitting the detainees...
...current trends make clear, AIDS is surpassing the Black Death as the most devastating plague ever to afflict the human race. That helps explain the sense of desperation that permeated the 15th International Conference on HIV and AIDS in Bangkok last week. But in a cruel irony, all the well-deserved attention paid to AIDS over the past few years has overshadowed the rapid comeback of a second, nearly-as-deadly plague--malaria. The latest figures suggest that malaria sickened 300 million people last year and killed 3 million--most of them under age 5. (AIDS last year killed just...