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...Braves-Pirates clash promised more sparks. Atlanta had located a lode of blithe character in its September pursuit and capture of favored Los Angeles. It helped that everybody hated the damn Dodgers. It didn't hurt that Braves partisans urged the team on with toy tomahawks and a war-chant mantra, which the votaries could moan for innings on end (the dumbest mass spasm since the Wave). By playoff time, the Braves were high and loose. All the Pirates' edgy swagger could not mute the magic -- or solve the riddle of a brilliant Atlanta pitcher, as young and ageless...
After each meeting, both drivers alert the cell head in code from a mobile phone or beeper. He telephones a desk officer in Cali, then sends confirmation by fax. Detailed ledgers are maintained in both countries. The ledgers have proved the system's main vulnerability, providing a rich lode of data to DEA analysts when seized...
...paean to transformative violence . . . An explicit fascist theme," writes social commentator John Leo, who went out prospecting for a column in U.S. News and World Report and discovered a mother lode of fool's gold...
After working for years on finding such a drug, Ingber had uncovered a mother lode--but there was a catch. Fed to rats, large enough doses of fumagillin proved capable of suppressing tumors, but at the same time also caused severe weight loss...
...construction company before August and is now living with his family in Cairo. "Before we are a nation, we are a business. The nationality records we recovered can tell us who was a real resident of Kuwait and who was not, and that is obviously important. But the real lode was the nation's financial and banking records." All told, about 85% of that material was smuggled out, and the rest was reconstructed by late October. So Kuwait, or at least Kuwait Inc., is offshore now -- an economy in exile...