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...scenic karst valleys of Son La province to Phu Yen district. Before the last two-hour leg of the journey, the driver warned that we would not be able to stop until we reached the hamlet of Phu Yen because even a brief halt in daylight might leave us prey to the bandits who operate in the area...
Even so, it is likely that the Senate investigation, like 10 prior official inquiries, will leave unanswered questions that the MIA industry can prey on. Illinois Republican Congressman Henry Hyde has suggested that given the cost of disproving counterfeit assertions about MIAs, anyone who makes one should be charged with defrauding the government. Perhaps. But the real victim is not the government. It is the MIA families, whose grief and uncertainty have been exploited...
...rational person can realize that the argument falls flat given that the two issues are wholly incongruous. Yet the Puerto Rican electorate mixed la gimnasia con la magnesia, (apples with oranges) and fell prey to the specter of a worsening social crisis. If their aim was to kick the governor out, they should have waited until the '92 elections, rather than compromise their identity...
...highways in the summer of 1492, Cabezon witnesses the horrific mass-expulsion of the Jews-their lives and possessions are now prey to roadside thieves as they march to the southern ports. Finding his wife and child in Puerto de Santa Maria as they prepare to embark, and unable to detain them, Cabezon promises to make his fortune and find them in Flanders. He then takes the road to Palos in search of a man he has heard of named Columbus. The novel closes, "We left port by way of the Saltes River, half an hour before sunup, on Friday...
...booming field of infertility medicine. Doctors can claim to be experts on the basis of scant experience or training. There is no board certification and little regulation. Now Jacobson has single-handedly made it time for the Federal Government and organized medicine to crack down on those who prey on the infertile...