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...Algeria called for a truce after five years. And mujahedin in Bosnia lost all hope of transforming that nation's ethnic war into a jihad after the signing of the Dayton peace accord in 1995. They were forced to leave the country without seeing their radical fervor infect the local population...
...matter of if, but when” and as much as we’d like to be able to, it’s hard to disagree with him. The next day FBI Director Robert Mueller said that Palestinian-style suicide bombers will inevitably infect the United States and there is nothing we can do about it. “I wish I could be more optimistic,” he concluded...
...surprising that someone came after him in print. What is surprising, and pleasantly so, is that useful information emerges from the brouhaha. Cramer's story--no matter who tells it--shows how thoroughly the culture of buzz has come to infect stock trading, and how even the SEC's new "fair disclosure" regulations fail to give average investors much chance in the short run. Pros like Cramer simply have too big an information edge...
...meet him in a postwar work camp, where--this much of the story is true--the Soviets imprisoned the airmen who fought with the Western allies lest they infect the workers' paradise with democratic insouciance. Franta tells his tale in flashbacks: during the war his girlfriend in Czechoslovakia (Linda Rybova) and a lovely Englishwoman (the heartbreaking Tara Fitzgerald) left him--the first because she thought him dead, the second because her husband returned from naval service grievously wounded; his best friend, a pilot (Krystof Hadek) he mentored, died saving Franta's life; even his dog acquired a new mistress...
Another danger arises because animals carry viruses that are harmless to their hosts but can turn deadly in another species. If such a virus hitchhiked aboard transplanted tissue, it could not only infect its new host but also spread to other humans--much as HIV did when it jumped from monkeys...