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...Herat before his flight to Pakistan, has spent the morning browsing through the bazaar. Hajji Mullah Sahib, once a Taliban ideologue and functionary in Kandahar, passed the time at home chatting with friends and neighbors. Both seem to go about their daily business without a care in this bustling gateway to Afghanistan...
Since then, the prospects for Fox's plan have dimmed. Rather than seeing the border as a gateway for an easy flow of goods and people, the U.S. since Sept. 11 has viewed it principally as a security problem. And those who would cross illegally into the U.S. know it. Fearful of getting caught in the heightened surveillance on both sides of the border, many would-be migrants are staying put for now. The reduced traffic is reflected in the falling numbers of people picked up by the U.S. border patrol. From September 2001 to January 2002, the figure...
Johnson's next battle was obtaining information about the suspect from creditors. Some companies, such as Discover and Gateway, gave Johnson everything on the fraudulent applications. Others, including Zales and American Express, told him next to nothing. "Giving customers some information would hamper our security efforts," says AmEx spokesperson Judy Tenzer. "We consider an investigation a law-enforcement issue," says Maria Mendler, of Zales' lending arm, Citibank...
...theft, but everyone involved agrees they are low and that the only practical alternative is prevention. Victims are advised to place fraud alerts on their credit reports, which flag potential lenders to contact their home or office before approving an application. Two months after Johnson posted these preauthorization advisories, Gateway's lending arm called to say it had rejected a fraudulent application. The same day, American Express phoned to see whether Johnson had received an Optima card--one he hadn't applied...
...World Heritage area for its outstanding cultural and ecological offerings, Kakadu includes one of the finest and most extensive collections of rock art and embraces some spectacular scenery, from a rugged 500-km-long sandstone escarpment to extensive woodlands and wetlands. It is also on Asia's doorstep: its gateway city, Darwin, is closer to Jakarta and Singapore than to the nation's capital, Canberra. Most people visit during the dry season (April-September), when the humidity is low and comfortable 21C-33C temperatures prevail. But we chose to come in February despite the intense humidity, frequent downpours, flooded roads...