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...have paid so little for something that was almost as good as the real thing. Most consumers would not knowingly apply the same logic to the medicine they take-who wants imitation Viagra? But people around the world may be unwittingly buying fake pharmaceuticals all the same. A raid of a ramshackle warehouse in southern China's Guangdong province last month turned up plenty of evidence that brand-name drugs are not always what they seem. In the raid, Chinese police working with investigators for U.S. drug manufacturer Eli Lilly discovered 40,000 little blue "Viagra" pills, knockoffs of Pfizer...
...much more intimate, and not only because any son could be drafted to serve. Women went without their nylons and saved their bacon grease to make explosives and planted victory gardens. People on the coastlines drove 20 m.p.h. after dark, their headlights partially blacked out, or volunteered as air-raid wardens or donated their rubber raincoats and tires and bathing caps, even though they couldn't be recycled for military use. It had the effect of pulling people together, uniting them behind the cause...
Many residents of Najaf have tired of al-Sadr and his militia's thuggish ways. Out of earshot of Mahdi Army members, locals complain that al-Sadr's men raid shops for supplies, confiscate mobile telephones and arrest people on suspicion of spying. A pro-al-Sadr newspaper ran a picture last week of a man hanged by al-Sadr followers for "spying." Waving the photo, Muntadhar al-Khazali, 18, an al-Sadr loyalist, issued a threat to others: "Anyone who works against us, this will be their fate. We will never let Muqtada al-Sadr die. If America...
...Sudanese government has promised to observe a cease-fire in Darfur, and recently allowed U.S. officials to visit the region. With the flood season approaching, the camps in western Sudan and Chad are at risk from isolation and outbreaks of disease. Most black villages have been abandoned; the Janjaweed raid them more than once to send the message that it's not safe to return. "You won't see someone with black skin in western Darfur," says Adulrahman Abdullah Abakar, 65, a refugee in Mahatama. For those forced from their homes, there is nothing left to return to. When...
...used to go to the middle school in our town and raid the dumpster,” says Peter Rothbart, relaxing at a Daedalus afterparty for the Harvard Bookstore Found show last Thursday. Ironically enough, Davy himself is unable to be found at the Found show due to a conflict in scheduling. “My brother is really dedicated. He put himself in debt for the magazine,” Peter says, clad in a kelly green T-shirt emblazoned with the words “SUPER...