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...Sepik heads might have fetched thousands of dollars apiece from collectors in the U.S. or Europe. Exporting the skulls without the rarely given special permit carries a maximum six-month jail sentence, Eoe says: it breaches not only the Cultural Property Preservation Act but part of the criminal code related to interfering with human remains. Yet in p.n.g., where corruption is pervasive and police are so poorly resourced they struggle to obtain fuel for mobile patrols, investigating non-violent crime is not a priority. Time has learned that none of the people involved in the apparent attempt to export...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Head Hunters | 7/25/2005 | See Source »

...morning last April, in the shadow of Montana's Beartooth Mountain range, five agents from the federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) walked into the office of Dr. Richard Nelson, a Billings neurologist. For six hours, they combed through his records, seizing 72 patient charts and confiscating his drug-dispensing permit. The charge? None so far, but the assumption is that he is suspected of improperly prescribing narcotic drugs. Despite a distinguished professional record spanning more than four decades, Nelson has had to spend $20,000 on lawyers, fearing that the government will indict him if it turns out that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Is The DEA Hounding This Doctor? | 7/18/2005 | See Source »

Rothstein said he looks forward to the imminent publication of both papers in AER and believes that the journal’s policies will permit a more productive exchange. Unlike NBER working papers, submissions to AER are reviewed and edited by a number of economists prior to publication...

Author: By Javier C. Hernandez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Star Ec Prof Caught in Academic Feud | 7/8/2005 | See Source »

...explain once again his general vision of how both sides could phase in strategic defenses while simultaneously cutting offensive weapons in order to achieve a greater "strategic stability." That explanation, Secretary Shultz had hinted earlier in the week, included offering an inducement: any significant cut in offensive missiles could permit a curtailment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sunk by Star Wars | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...want to reply to accusations of terrorism by merely charging that the other side commits similar acts? Why do you permit [the suspected terrorist] Abu Nidal to operate from Syria? Why don't you do something about the camps in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley from which some of the terrorist operations are launched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Interview with Hafez Assad | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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