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...killed 16 people in a month and hospitalized 822 more. As the epidemic itself waned, misfortune has overwhelmed the city. First the lucrative tourist trade dried up. Then the port was all but quarantined. Fishmongers who sold the sewage-contaminated mussels that spread the infection were virtually ostracized; their livelihood was ruined as police frogmen systematically uprooted the mussel beds. Afraid of contagion, Neapolitans, the most gregarious people in Italy, began to avoid one another, literally like the plague. In the birthplace of the pizza, even mozzarella cheese became an object of suspicion...
...Tuan's operations will not stop the supply of opium from the Triangle. Dozens of smaller traders wait to step in when big operators disappear. The Triangle's climate and altitude are perfect for the poppy-the cultivation of which provides thousands of villagers with a livelihood. One seasoned opium trader remarked: "In this business, there are not only millions of dollars at stake but thousands of people who have a vested interest in the system. You might as well try to plug up a sieve...
...Communists or dupes of Communism. He attacked not just alleged Communists but also their colleagues, friends and relatives. He almost never seriously tried to check facts. Finally, he was backed by a whole apparatus of secret interrogations and blacklists by which a victim could be deprived of reputation and livelihood without any chance to defend himself. The term McCarthyism should be used with precision-as a synonym for nothing less than demagoguery and deceit...
...grass with little spades. "As so often in India, you can look at a scene in two ways," he says: He sees the beautiful harmony of these women with the earth; then he senses that they are forced to scratch a crop from practically barren ground for their livelihood. He discovers similar naturalistic and political significance in most Indian scenes...
...fine: "I'm done for," he sobbed when he was arrested. "I'm going to kill myself." Pending trial, a considerate magistrate put him in a suburban jail rather than the Lyon lockup, where Tonnot might encounter pimps whom he had done out of a livelihood...