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...loaded with relief supplies, I jumped at the chance to sail into these forbidden valleys. Even though the tribes had requested assistance, UNICEF project leader Tamur Mueenuddin, a tireless Pakistani doctor, wasn't sure what sort of reception his team would get. What little money Kala Dhaka's tribesmen scrape together, usually from selling opium, is spent on guns. Scenes flashed through my mind from the film Deliverance, in which Burt Reynolds and his rafting buddies are picked off by vengeful hillbillies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After the Earthquake | 10/30/2005 | See Source »

...gasoline, household and industrial chemicals and stinking human waste. They will leave a layer of heavily contaminated silt everywhere. John Pardue, director of the Louisiana Water Resources Research Institute at Louisiana State University, says, "We're going to have to find out how deep the contamination is. Can we scrape it off, or are we going to have to replace topsoil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rebuilding A Dream | 9/6/2005 | See Source »

Soon after Halim got to Camp Delta, he tried to end his life again. He thought he could scrape enough paint chips off the cells to eat all at once and do himself in, but it only gave him an upset stomach. Then for a while it appeared that he was starting to improve--until the day he requested a razor in the shower, supposedly to shave his body hair. It seemed insane to me that a detainee who had twice tried to kill himself would be allowed to take a razor into the shower. But at this point, things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An American Witness | 5/1/2005 | See Source »

...students and users everywhere on notice that there are consequences to illegal uses of this special network.” Before doing what was previously so easy, just a matter of a few clicks, we will all hesitate, thinking of that kid next door who now has to scrape together thousands to repent for his dishonorable double-clicks...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: Wrath of the RIAA | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...wire snare attached to remove the polyp they knew about, and an optical device to allow close examination of the intestine. The second polyp they discovered was too large (about the size of a baby's finger) to be removed in that manner; all they could do then was scrape off some cells from the polyp's periphery for a biopsy. Though Reagan was conscious, he knew none of this at the time. By 3:20 p.m. he was being wheeled to a recovery room, Nancy walking alongside, and assayed a one-liner. "Now, what is your name again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ronald Reagan: Anxiety over an Ailing President | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

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