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...furniture, and generally make a nuisance of themselves for weeks or months before finally having the decency to pack up and hit the road. That's not good news for residents of the Mississippi River Valley, who long after floodwaters have crested will play host to a chocolate-colored inland sea sprawling across the spine of the Midwest -- a stagnant, festering stew of industrial waste, agricultural pesticides and raw sewage that laminates buildings in goo and provides a superb growing environment for bacteria. The entire floodplain, says Anita Walker in Des Moines, Iowa, will be a "muddy, stinky, awful mess...
...hark back to the storms that lashed the East Coast in the 1940s and '50s. As strange as the weather may seem this week, it hasn't produced anything like the tale of the tornado that traveled over a Southern lake in the 1950s, moved a few miles inland, and then started dropping fish at the feet of startled residents standing on their lawns...
...Chinese know they have to wipe off stains on their hands before they can shake hands with Bill Clinton," says an Asian diplomat. "The paroles will help, but more are needed to do the trick." Perhaps dangling petrodollars might. China has opened up its remote but resource-rich inland areas to foreign oil companies, inviting U.S. oil firms to join the exploration of Xinjiang's Tarim Basin, an area as big as Texas...
...other way." A unified market has not changed the German rules, but now inspections take place on Kastner's premises. He had to spend $62,000 for new software to calculate value-added tax, which is now done in-house. "The single market has merely pushed the border inland," he said. "Brussels bureaucrats want to know how many kilos of this, how many crates of that. Before, I needed half an hour to do paperwork for one truck picking up produce in Paris. Today a specialist needs a full hour for each truck...
...possibility of confrontation will increase sharply when the foreign troops push inland toward the famine belt. The situation to the south, in Kismayu, was grim. Sixty people were killed last week during clashes between two local factions, and all but a handful of relief workers had to be evacuated. Of mounting concern is what the thugs plan to do once the foreign troops reach these cities. Will they turn their firepower on the soldiers? Or will they continue running as the U.S. units advance, pushing into villages that until now have been spared the worst of the fighting...