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...risks; for every million people who take it, as many as 52 will develop life-threatening ailments, and roughly two will die. On the plus side, it is one of the few vaccines that work relatively well even when given a couple of days after exposure. The ill effects pale beside those of smallpox, which kills nearly one-third of those infected...
...year for the 100 members of the Table Mountain Rancheria, who over Thanksgiving picked up bonus checks of $200,000 each as their share of the Table Mountain Casino's profits. That was in addition to the monthly stipend of $15,000 each member receives. But even those amounts pale beside the fortunes made by the behind-the-scenes investors who bankroll the gaming palaces. They walk away with up to hundreds of millions of dollars...
Three days after the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar fell in December last year, I ventured out to an al-Qaeda camp in the pale-gray flatlands behind the airport. This was where Osama bin Laden kept his horses. By the time I got there, the terrorists were long gone. Prowling around the bombed-out stables, I found a pile of dented steel lockers, maybe 30 of them, filled with chunks of lapis lazuli. There were booby traps all over the camp?one of them had blown the head off bin Laden's grazing stallion?but I opened...
...Once packed with pale Australians on winter holidays and German package tour groups, the sands of Kuta Beach are deserted. The hawkers offering massages, manicures and marijuana outnumber visitors five to one. Even the Kuta cowboys, the infamous Javanese gigolos who prowled the beach for lonely hearts and fat purses, seem to have disappeared. As one vendor puts it, "There is no one for them to gigolo with." Pitana grimaces at the mention of the cowboys. "We don't need that kind of business anyway," he says, referring to both the gigolos and some of the seedier bars. "Because...
However, given Saddam Hussein’s ruthlessness, it is not beyond the pale of reason to imagine some of the political refugees who’ve settled in America over the last decade are his agents. If the government has reasons to be suspicious of specific individuals, it should not have to wait for a tip to passively observe someone’s behavior...