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...Maybe they were just trying to rake in some pocket money from visas, $30 apiece, before the Pakistanis closed down the consulate. Or was it a trap? Did they think that our presence might make the Pentagon hesitate before bombing Kandahar? If so, it was a bad guess...
...three-panel photograph entitled “Stella Searching” shows an elderly woman, rake in hand, staring upward while standing in a neat and orderly lawn. The middle panel pictures a single old and brittle leaf attached to a branch. The top panel depicts a gray storm cloud with a bit of sun peeking from behind it. The orderliness of the lawn suggests that Stella, the old woman, is attempting to control her life. Stella stares at the lone leaf, which represents her fate, in a vain attempt to master it. Its lengthy distance from Stella may point...
...first glance it looks like the greatest marketing coup of all time: In the midst of escalating public anxiety about anthrax, one pharmaceutical company looks set to rake in huge profits from its superstar antibiotic, Cipro, which also happens to be the only FDA-approved treatment for inhalational anthrax...
...It’s very much a self-selecting crowd, with mostly young people already enamored with the benefits of pot, and looking to celebrate a bright sunny day by firing up a bowl on Boston Common. Still, among the mix were plenty of pro-pot politicians, attempting to rake in some political capital from the event, including the incessant chant from the Green Party table, “If you smoke green, you should vote Green...
...Take Colombia, for example: A young boy or girl in rural Putumayo has the choice between the despairing poverty of peasant life, cultivating coca for sale to narco-traffickers, or joining the wealthiest guerrilla army in history, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia which is believed to rake in hundreds of millions of dollars every year from "taxing" the narcotics industry. They're well-fed, well-armed, and are even reported to take seaside vacations in Panama. Life in the FARC can be dangerous, of course - it is, after all, an army at war. But not necessarily more dangerous than...