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People now know that this crisis was years in the making. Stocks kept climbing because executives kept finding creative new ways to hide the truth and fake a profit, to pretend they were investing money rather than just spending it. The revelations make for some dark magic now. When $2 billion disappears from Xerox's revenues, $4 billion from WorldCom's, it makes people feel poorer even if they personally lost nothing. The markets now look as if they could manage their third straight year of losses, for the first time since World War II, even though the economy grew...
...slows the ravages of time for women. It is already the No. 1 prescription drug in America, and it is about to hit its demographic sweet spot: the millions of baby boomers now experiencing their first hot flashes...what today's women should know is that like every other magic potion, this one has a dark side...It means a lifetime of drug taking and possible side effects that include an increased risk of several forms of cancer. That danger was underscored last week by a report reaffirming the long-suspected link between estrogen-replacement therapy and breast cancer. Weighing...
...magic to work, the killing had to be done just right. If the goddess were to grant Khudu Karmakar the awesome powers he expected from a virgin's death, the victim had to be willing, had to know what was happening, watch the knife, and not stop it. But even tranquilizers couldn't lull 15-year-old Manju Kumari to her fate. In his police confession, Karmakar says his wife, daughter and three accomplices had to gag Manju and pin her down on the earthen floor before the shrine. In ritual order, Karmakar wafted incense over her, tore...
...scenarios for abuse. "This is patently quite dangerous and irresponsible," says human-rights activist Steve Wright, who, as director of the Omega Foundation, works with Amnesty International to monitor nonlethal weapons. "What the U.S. invents today, others, including the torturing states, will deploy tomorrow." Just how much is that magic rubber bullet worth to us? Maybe some science fiction should remain fictional. - With reporting by Mark Thompson/Washington
...Indeed, the realization that Alprax is no magic pill is dawning too late for some. Two months after Singh died, her sister-in-law was found hanging from her bedroom ceiling. The coroner found she had taken at least 10 Alprax tablets before she committed suicide...