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...Some money is generated by their internationally famed skills as wood carvers, but trade is sporadic. "The need for cash for school fees is so urgent," says p.n.g.-based anthropologist Nancy Sullivan, who has consulted on aid projects in the region. "There's no development. Boat fuel is so expensive. They are not poor the way people in Africa are. They have their gardens and the river, but they do not have cash." Exploiting this cash vacuum are some unscrupulous artifact dealers who travel up and down the river, taking advantage of its people's poverty to mine a rich...
...special permit carries a maximum six-month jail sentence, Eoe says: it breaches not only the Cultural Property Preservation Act but part of the criminal code related to interfering with human remains. Yet in p.n.g., where corruption is pervasive and police are so poorly resourced they struggle to obtain fuel for mobile patrols, investigating non-violent crime is not a priority. Time has learned that none of the people involved in the apparent attempt to export the two skulls has yet been charged. "I don't know why it's taken so long," says Wewak police detective Kila Tali...
...enveloped in a dark cloud, admits his misdemeanors to Tiazy. Since there's no magistrate in this area, Dani is granted bail and ordered to face court next week in Gizo, the provincial capital. For minor offenses such as his, court tends to be a last resort. With fuel prohibitively expensive - at $1.20 a liter, a long trip can cost a day's wages - the police are always on the lookout for alternatives. Offenders might be asked to clean up the growth around markets with their bush knives or do other work in the village. "We've had to change...
...answer. Finally, he called the tower and said, "We're going to land!" We touched down about halfway up the runway and came to a screaming halt right at the end. Later, we ran tests on the gas tanks. We had about 35 gal. of usable fuel. And 35 gal.-as far as a B-29 is concerned-is immaterial. We were essentially...
Homeland security�secretary Michael Chertoff tried to explain last week why air security has been given greater priority than protecting mass transit on the ground. "A fully loaded airplane with jet fuel ... has the capacity to kill 3,000 people," he said. "A bomb in a subway car may kill 30 people." That brought an outcry from many city officials. But it shouldn't reassure anyone that all the security problems in the air have been solved. Take the troubled no-fly list of the Transportation Security Administration...