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...money. The dry rot at the CDC labs in Atlanta--where leaky walls are repaired with duct tape and a sputtering power system caused a blackout during the height of anthrax testing last fall--is only the most conspicuous part of the problem. Funding throughout the agency is so meager that members of the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service--a sort of disease SWAT team--cannot afford even such basic field equipment as two-way pagers...
...meager signs of progress recently recorded by Middle East peace brokers have once again been obliterated in an all-too familiar orgy of terror. The tragedy of the six Israelis killed in a Palestinian suicide attack on a Bat Mitzvah in northern Israel Thursday may be compounded by the fact that it was foretold...
...When Zacarias Moussaoui was arrested in Minnesota last August on immigration violations, sources say, he had in his possession the telephone number and address of Ramzi Binalshibh, a Yemeni student in Hamburg. Those meager notes and a money transfer are at the center of the terrorism conspiracy case federal investigators are building against the mysterious French-Moroccan...
After three years of drought, five years of failed harvests and 22 years of war, the refugees have exhausted their meager savings and killed their livestock. In August the camps around Mazar-i-Sharif had a two-week supply of food. After Sept. 11 all aid was suspended as agencies withdrew; 230 have died in Dehdadi since then. Others have fled into the frozen mountains rather than live in a war zone. Without food or water, many have surely perished. Now, with the Taliban's retreat, the way to better-supplied camps near Pakistan is open--but many...
...father?s election closed one door, it opened another. Despite his meager qualifications - he only finished a few years of university and had worked as a journalist for about nine years - Jean-Christophe in 1986 was named chief presidential adviser on African affairs. He soon gained a reputation for currying favor with African leaders on behalf of the Elysée, delivering messages dictated by the President - thus earning him the nickname Papa-m?a-dit (Daddy told me). His undistinguished diplomatic career, constantly shadowed by rumors and unfavorable press coverage, concluded in 1992 as he left the halls...