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While technology has greatly expanded the telemarketers' reach, it has also given consumers weapons to fight back. Caller ID--which is used by 38% of U.S. households today, up from 30% in 1998--at first allowed users to detect calls from salespeople and other pests. But telemarketers learned to mask their numbers so that they read as UNAVAILABLE or OUT OF AREA on caller-ID displays, and users often answer because they think the call might be an urgent one from a friend or colleague--an impulse that's especially prevalent in these days of orange alerts...
...barely alive himself. Only two fingers remain on his left hand?he lost the others in a B-41 rocket attack that killed six of his fellow Hmong. His leg still bleeds from a suppurating shrapnel wound he received 13 years ago. One side of his face is a mask of melted flesh, with black sockets where an ear and an eye should be. "Everybody is dead," he says. "Sixteen people in my family are dead, all killed by the communists." In a heartbreaking refrain I heard repeatedly during my stay in the camp, he adds, "America must save...
...other hand, the use of human sacrifice as a mask for the arguably ritual murders of Richard doesn’t translate as smoothly as the play would have us believe. The religious ceremonies that were historically performed on prisoners of war don’t make much sense when used as a tool against nobility, no matter how striking they appear as a spectacle...
...confusion couldn’t mask the glaring reality, and that is this: Hendricks, the junior who is only about as important as oxygen to the Harvard baseball team, will undergo surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital and miss six weeks. Hendricks will have a bone chip removed from his knee, and should be healthy for summer ball in Brewster of the Cape Cod League, set to start a week after NCAA Regionals would occur in early June...
...into this sorry isolation ward that 20-year-old Shanxi student Han was admitted last week, accompanied by his sister and her boyfriend, who came to take care of him. The boyfriend, surnamed Liang, remembers asking a nurse for a mask to wear around the crowded ward, but he was curtly told to go out and buy his own because the hospital had no money to provide extras. More worrisome, Liang had dozed overnight in a chair next to five relatives of a man who was dying of SARS. By last Wednesday, all five family members had come down with...