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Meanwhile, TIME's Latin America bureau chief, John Moody, and Bogota reporter Tom Quinn had been angling for an interview with cartel patriarch Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela. Finally, word came in April that the "Chess Player" was ready to talk. Moody and Quinn flew from Bogota to Cali and waited tensely for a phone call. "We began to worry: Had Rodriguez changed his mind or, worse, was this some elaborate trap?" John recalls. About 50 journalists have been killed in Colombia since 1980. But the call eventually came, and they were driven to meet Rodriguez. The Cali chief talked calmly. "There...
...Nancy Modiano, a 30-year-old Hamilton, N.J., resident, agrees with Heimlich. She thinks she contracted Lyme disease as a teenager. By last year she was helpless, subject to vomiting and seizures, her joints so swollen that she couldn't operate her wheelchair. She flew to Mexico City last November and was injected with malaria. For 35 days her fever would spike to 108 degrees, then drop to 95 degrees. Yet two weeks after the induced malaria was cured, she was learning to walk again. Though she still has some Lyme symptoms, her recovery continues. She sums up the experience...
...America. Like this year's Presbyterian panel, the Catholic thinkers who took part declared there could be instances in which homosexual, premarital and unwed sex were moral. The group was even unwilling to outlaw adultery flatly, though it urged "extreme caution" for priests who face the issue. The views flew in the face of Vatican pronouncements made a year earlier, and the doctrine committee of the U.S. bishops later issued an unusual attack on the study. But since the mid-1970s, National Opinion Research Center polls have shown that rank-and-file U.S. Catholics are consistently more liberal than Protestants...
When Johnson & Johnson introduced a new fiber-glass casting tape for broken bones several years ago, executives at Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing flew into a rage. The tape, which sets fractures faster than plaster, was remarkably similar in design and function to a casting tape developed by 3M scientists. The St. Paul-based company quickly sued, charging J&J with violating four of its patents. Last month a federal court backed 3M and ordered J&J to pay $116 million in damages and interest -- the fourth largest patent-infringement judgment in history...
...gulf had an aspect of the high-tech medieval. What Beelzebubs flew buzzing through the sky on the tips of Scuds and smart bombs, making mischief and brimstone? Each side demonized the other, as in every war: Gott mit Uns. Saddam Hussein had George Bush down as the Evil One. George Bush had Saddam down as Hitler. In most of the West, Hitler is the 20th century's term for Great Satan. After the war, quick and obliterating, Hussein hardly seems worthy of the name of evil anymore...