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Having given up on finding a good beach, we decided to flee the tourist hordes and check out one of the smaller, more remote islands. After several days' journey on slow-moving ferries and jittery prop planes, we arrived at the tiny island of Maupiti...
...fail doctrine. Under that policy, which is intended to prevent runs on deposits at large institutions, the government makes good on the entire account -- no matter how sizable -- that a major depositor holds in a large bank. That particularly worries small-town bankers, who fear customers may flee to larger rivals...
...Mogadishu resembled a charnel house last week after victorious rebels drove President Mohammed Siad Barre into exile, ending 21 years of dictatorial rule. Dogs devoured hundreds of corpses in the streets < following a month-long campaign that killed more than 5,000 civilians and forced tens of thousands to flee. Starving survivors had only fetid river water to drink, and looters reduced shattered buildings to empty shells...
...have been conditioned not to view humans as enemies. "These animals are used to the click of the camera, not the crack of the rifle," argued Wayne Pacelle, national director of the Fund for Animals, in an editorial in USA Today. "When the hunters approach, the animals don't flee. They merely stare at their bloodthirsty executioners." Last year three antihunting protesters were arrested and charged with attacking hunters and game wardens with cross-country ski poles...
Bush asks Congress to write off Egypt's $7-billion debt in appreciation for help in the gulf. Iraq offers free oil to Third World countries. Iraqi soldiers move into French diplomatic compound in Kuwait. Iraq opens Kuwait's borders, and thousands of Kuwaitis attempts to flee...