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...Songkhla boat camp in southern Thailand, where nearly 5,000 Vietnamese live on a section of ant-infested beach, people use the privies when the water is high so that the falling tide will lessen the stench. On the island of Bidong, site of Malaysia's largest camp, conditions were considered critical six months ago when the camp's population was 15,000. Today 45,000 people are crowded into 30 acres. French doctors aboard a privately chartered hospital ship stationed offshore have asked Pope John Paul II to visit Bidong, adding: "On this island today beats...
...Chinese. Lured by higher wages and weary of the hardships at home, most IIs come to Hong Kong for good. They arrive singly or in small groups, armed and prepared to fight. Many are smuggled into the colony by immigrants living there; the largest such operation is run by a 100-member triad, or gang, called the Big Circle. One of the gang's ploys is to send a group of its members picnicking near the border; there they pick up IIs and escort them back into the city. Others come by way of Portuguese-run Macao, where "snakeheads...
...survival. But many scientists argue that the calculations should take other factors into account. Some of these marine mammals are believed to be monogamous, and the slaughter of one whale may break up a family unit, with a drastic effect on breeding. Since certain species have the largest brains of any creatures, they may be intelligent enough to fear such sounds as ships' propellers, even at distances of hundreds of miles. This too could disturb their mating habits...
...year ago, Berkey Photo (1978 revenues: $199 million) won a major victory over giant Eastman Kodak ($7 billion) in one of the largest private antitrust suits in history. A federal district-court jury in Manhattan found that Kodak, which made more than 80% of the film sold in the U.S. in 1973, when the case was first brought, and garnered over 60% of camera sales, not only had monopoly power in the amateur-photography field but had used this power unfairly. Berkey was awarded treble damages of $87 million. Now, in an equally stunning reversal, the U.S. Second Circuit Court...
...distribution of millionaires around the country is uneven and sometimes surprising. As might be expected, the largest numbers are in the key business centers-New York (about 51,000), California (33,500) and Illinois (31,100). In terms of density, the millionaire population averages out to 2.36 of every 1,000 people over all the 50 states and territories...