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...infirmary in the main cabin is known as Club Meds. Each day as the 80 campers fish, play basketball, paint or make lanyards, a team of volunteer nurses sit around a table on which hundreds of pills are lined up like jelly beans. If only they were. In a harsh reminder of just how different this camp is, the nurses carry those pills to the camp's 10 cabins two to three times a day. Some kids must pop as many as 30, which can inflict hours of nausea, dizziness or nightmares that make sleeping impossible. Smaller kids have trouble...
...meter high; the first harvest could take place in just five years. Eyes shaded by his black cowboy hat, the Singaporean native gazes down the rows of juvenile trees, each worth thousands of dollars at maturity, with a satisfied grin. The experimental lumber crop has survived the harsh North Korean winter and is flourishing in the loamy soil. "The paulownia loves this," he says. Glancing at another leafy plant, a new hybrid, he confides, "We're going to let the Dear Leader name...
...military sources have believed that the man who gave sanctuary to Osama bin Laden has found refuge of his own in an arc of inaccessible mountains north of Kandahar. It is a place where even a half-blind cleric on the run has factors in his favor: a harsh environment, strong tribal ties, loyal friends and a population increasingly disposed to hate the Americans. Little wonder, says a senior Kandahar police commander, that after months of searching, the coalition forces "are not one inch closer to getting hold" of Omar...
...discovery that life can thrive under horrific conditions is a major scientific advance. But it could also turn out to be hugely profitable. Extremophiles survive by manufacturing all sorts of novel molecules. Some digest harsh chemicals; some protect DNA against destruction by radiation; some stave off searing heat or freezing cold. Entrepreneurs are racing to turn these molecules into products, just as was done in the 1980s with Thermus aquaticus, the Yellowstone bug exploited in the PCR technique widely used today to analyze...
...insurers need to hold above their liabilities to policyholders - and crossing their fingers. CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY Making Scandals Add Up to Reform Faster than a plunging Enron share, tougher than a bear market, the U.S. Congress last week whisked through the biggest changes to business oversight in 60 years, creating harsh penalties for fraud and an independent board to regulate accounting. But the legislation is silent on one controversial accounting trick, treating stock options as expenses when companies do their taxes but not when they report profits. It's a sleight-of-hand, critics say, at the heart of many recent...