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...gunpoint to an ATM, where he is forced to make the maximum daily withdrawal--generally between $1,000 and $2,000. The kidnappers sometimes wait and force the victim to make another maximum daily withdrawal after the clock turns over, usually at midnight. A victim who doesn't resist usually isn't hurt and is dropped off in a remote location, often only half an hour or so after he was first grabbed. --By David Robinson...
...like to bathe in public. This inclination has thus far failed to attract much attention because I live in Japan. Here, hot-springs hopping is a national obsession enjoyed by wrinkled elders and stylish college girls alike. Foreign visitors often resist getting naked with strangers, but the transpacific flight alone ought to convince you. What better way to ease your aching joints than with a good long soak...
There are not one but two books about Comstock's exploits on bookstore shelves this summer--the other is Gregory Gibson's Demon of the Waters--which raises the question, Why is it that we landlubbers can't resist a good sea story, the wetter the better? Nautical narratives have been a cultural fixture ever since Odysseus set sail for Ithaca. Sebastian Junger's best-selling The Perfect Storm made them sexy again, and this summer we're being deluged with nautical tomes...
...intelligence agencies to share information with each other was one of our government's most egregious lapses leading up to Sept. 11," charges Democratic Senator Joseph Lieberman. The CIA and the FBI have promised Congress they will send the new department their "finished" intelligence reports, but they resist divulging raw data and sensitive sources and methods. The two organizations also insist the bureaucratic war between them is over. "The FBI and CIA are working together," says Jim Bernazzani, an FBI agent detailed to the CTC and one of its deputy directors. "Anybody who promotes the notion that...
...intelligence agencies to share information with each other was one of our government's most egregious lapses leading up to Sept. 11," charges Democratic Senator Joseph Lieberman. The CIA and the FBI have promised Congress they will send the new department their "finished" intelligence reports, but they resist divulging raw data and sensitive sources and methods. The two organizations also insist the bureaucratic war between them is over. "The FBI and CIA are working together," says Jim Bernazzani, an FBI agent detailed to the CTC and one of its deputy directors. "Anybody who promotes the notion that...