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...wasn’t all glamorous. Patrick and Breaux also took on some more unusual jobs—like counting cars on the highway...
...recognize. In January 2005, Elmas Guzelyurtlu, a Turkish Cypriot businessman living near Nicosia in the southern part of Cyprus, was awoken by intruders. They took him, his wife[an error occurred while processing this directive] and 15-year-old daughter into a waiting car, drove them to a deserted highway pull-off, and shot them in the head. The murderers then fled across the "green line" that has divided Cyprus since 1974. For a moment, it seemed that justice might take its course. Turkish-Cypriot police, in the north of the island, arrested the occupants of an unregistered car matching...
...Highway 50 runs straight as a pool cue from Pueblo, Colo., through 23 miles of rangeland and piñon flats before offering an exit to the scruffy little city of Florence (pop. 3,795). Like Flint, Mich., or Orlando, Fla., Florence is a company town. The industry here is prisoners, and the company is the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Twenty years ago, the people of surrounding Fremont County ponied up $160,000 to buy some open land outside Florence, hoping to entice the bureau to build a prison complex as a way to boost the town's economy. Corrections...
Moving money from sector to sector to capture performance is like frequently changing lanes on a crowded highway: you rarely get where you're going faster, and you risk a wreck. Recognize that strong recent performance often signals an investment opportunity that has passed. It's best to heed Alexander Pope's admonishment: "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread...
Living through a ride on the Highway of Death turned out to be the least of my worries as I arrived in Iraq for the first time last week. I had landed at Baghdad International Airport on Tuesday after an early flight from Amman, Jordan, over Iraq's barren western expanses as they caught the day's sunrise. After some visa haggling and a luggage wait upon landing, I was on the road into Baghdad, rolling along the same littered stretch where a friend of mine, aid worker Marla Ruzicka, lost her life to a suicide car bomber in April...