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Fancy a hip replacement and an Asian vacation? With bargain prices, a wealth of medical specialists and alluring post-op locales, Southeast Asia has proved irresistible to ailing tourists. Singapore entered the clinical fray about a decade ago, followed by Thailand a few years later; now Malaysia is on the health-tourism bandwagon...
Though he frequently spoke out about events in the Middle East, Said—who once served on the Palestinian Liberation Organization’s governing council—attempted for the most part to remain outside the political fray...
...also indulged his social ambitions by organizing celebrity-studded receptions and junkets to Algeria, sponsoring pro sports teams and founding satellite TV channels based in London and Paris. Last September, Moumen launched his French Khalifa TV from his €36 million villa in Cannes. But the image began to fray when Khalifa TV's brief time on the air featured tacky, uninspired programming. On July 2 Khalifa TV's debt and insolvency led a French commercial court to order the company liquidated. It was a fate Khalifa Airlines' French unit also met eight days later, a mere formality, because last...
PORT SECURITY Few scenarios fray the nerves of counterterrorism planners more than the prospect of someone sneaking a nuclear warhead such as a dirty bomb aboard a cargo container headed for a U.S. port. For a nation that took in more than 7 million pieces of container freight last year, the security challenges are awesome. To ensure that those containers aren't used to smuggle in nuclear terrorism, U.S. customs agents often track ships before they leave foreign ports, using computers to keep tabs on their cargo. Some containers have electronic lids that will indicate if they have been tampered...
Though he tended to stay out of the political fray on campus, Ford spoke out against the Vietnam war in a Commencement speech in 1967, and was one of several top American educators to pay a visit to President Johnson that year to express concern for the repercussions of the war on foreign policy, the nation and higher education...