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...drink?' He'd always rest his briefcase on the table below the mirror in the foyer...and say, 'Better make it a double.'" Burroughs would uncap one of his father's liquor bottles, upend it with his hand pressed over the top, then recap it and lick his palm...
...million residents of this oil- and gas-rich province. Martial law was declared, removing the last pretense that Aceh has ever had a functioning civilian government. Renewed fighting erupted across the province, killing dozens. Jet fighters and U.S.-made Bronco OV-10 bombers screamed low over the palm trees while tanks and armored troop carriers rumbled through the countryside. More than 200 schools were burned to the ground within 36 hours, a wanton destruction of property blamed on GAM in the past, but which this time was so well orchestrated that one independent observer suggested the military might have been...
...memory. "It was terrible," she moaned. "So much blood." Two of the dead, she said, were just schoolboys?Annas Nazir, 11, and Dedi Daud, 13. Her account of the massacre was echoed by a 49-year-old man who had watched from a hiding place among nearby palm trees. When I asked if he was related to any of the dead, his face crumpled. "Yes," he replied hoarsely. "Five of them were cousins." Then the big man began...
...early May, scientists from HKU and Shenzhen's Center for Disease Control decided to test animals sold in one large food market in Shenzhen, including house cats, hares, beavers and the Chinese muntjac, a small deer. When they examined sputum, feces and blood of the masked palm civet, they hit pay dirt. All six of the civets tested, according to Professor K.Y. Yuen, head of the microbiology department at HKU, carried huge amounts of a coronavirus strikingly similar to the SARS agent. The scientists sequenced its genome and found the two viruses to be nearly identical. The World Health Organization...
...counteraccusations of Tasaday proponents and skeptics, but when he narrates his own fact-finding travels in the Philippines, he can be risibly naive. He tells the reader everything he wrote down in his notebook, interesting or not: "We drove for half an hour, past rice paddies, water buffalo and palm trees." Invented Eden has many such sentences. Worse, Hemley is a complainer, which is no more fun in a book than on the trail: the roads are muddy, his saddle hurts, the locals rip him off, his asthma acts...