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...where it is grown has been lost in the haze. Back in the dust-bowl fields around Mazar, the growing foreign demand and new freedom to exploit it translate into a rare chance at riches. While prices are minimal compared with the eventual $3,000 to $8,000 a kilo that Afghan hash fetches in the West, Northern Alliance commander Akbar Khan says farming anything except cannabis makes little sense. "A kilo of wheat sells for 20,000 Afghanis (40?)," he explains. "But a kilo of chaars will sell for 10 million...
...Meanwhile, the U.S. still boasts a clear military edge. China's newest weapons from Russia?a pair of Sovremenny-class destroyers with advanced Sunburn anti-ship missiles, and four Kilo-class submarines?could damage the U.S. fleet. But U.S. ships and their systems "were designed to deal with the much more capable Soviet Navy with scores of excellent subs," says Walter Slocombe, Under Secretary of Defense in the Clinton years...
...Japanese restaurant in Beijing, Jiang Wen looks spent. China's gruffest actor and boldest director has been slouching and smoking and dishing out melancholy in front of the camera all day, and he can look forward to more of the same through the night. His 1.83-meter, 98-kilo frame crumples against the wall, his eyes beat and basset-hound weary...
...were supposed to stop with the 1953 armistice. They didn't, says Lim, who was sent across the dmz in 1965. His orders: blow up a camp housing 162 soldiers. Lim, who asked that his real name not be used, carried the bomb switches; his three men carried five-kilo bombs. They crawled to the perimeter of the camp, knocked out the guards by spraying them with gas from plastic containers, then scrambled out moments before the camp exploded. "I was a soldier working for the South Korean army," Lim says. "I thought this had to be done...
...sold as catfish. Legislation to make the ban permanent passed the Senate in December and is pending in the House. The measure was specifically aimed at competition from Vietnamese farmers who raise a variety of catfish in flooded rice paddies and sell them for attractive prices: about $4.00 a kilo wholesale, vs. $5.60 for U.S.-farmed catfish. Called basa, the Vietnamese fish account for about 20% of catfish fillets sold in the U.S., up from 7% in 1997. "These fish are being pawned off as catfish to unsuspecting American consumers," argued Arkansas Senator Tim Hutchinson, who co-sponsored the legislation...