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...inevitably life in the Kuna's San Blas archipelago has subtly changed. Many of the men have left the islands for jobs inland. Tourism and rampant drug smuggling along the coast have transformed the Kuna's former open welcome of Americans into the almost xenophobic suspicion with which they have always regarded Latinos. The number of day trippers, drawn by the Kuna's renowned cloth art, the mola, has multiplied...
...more harmful AIDS virus, much as people infected with cowpox virus are protected against smallpox. Studies of old blood samples indicate that the virus has been present in Senegal for at least ten years. Significantly, no cases of AIDS have been reported in the country, though the disease is rampant in central Africa...
...largest employer to test all personnel is the U.S. military. Alarmed by rampant drug use among men and women in uniform, the Pentagon began widespread random testing in 1982, starting with the Army. At first, the program was developed so fast and handled so sloppily that it gave drug testing a bad name. Hundreds of soldiers claimed that they were falsely accused of being drug users because of inaccurate results...
...city. There the trio were unceremoniously executed by gunshots to the back of the head. What made the swift justice remarkable was that two of the three were sons of senior Chinese officials. Their deaths were the most dramatic sign yet of Peking's determination to stamp out rampant nepotism...
...Fidel Castro's angriest performance since 1970, when Cuba's sugar harvest fell disastrously short of its goal. Addressing 1,800 delegates to the Cuban Communist Party's third congress, including representatives from 100 socialist countries, he vigorously and theatrically attacked rampant waste, mismanagement and indiscipline in Cuba's faltering economic system, still heavily dependent on Soviet subsidies. After two hours of a 5-hr. 40-min. marathon, Castro, 59, called an unusual half-hour recess. Precisely 30 minutes later, the Cuban dictator, who often wears two watches to be sure he is on time, strode onto the podium...