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...keep count," Nishimura says. Police are starting to take notice, though. Last month, after someone left a message identifying a schoolgirl and threatening to rape her, anonymous callers tipped off police, who immediately surrounded the girl's school in Ibaraki prefecture. Fortunately, this one turned out to be a sick prank. Most prefectures have high-tech departments dealing with Internet and related crimes. But it's difficult to catch the author of an anonymous message if the bulletin board is accessed through a public computer. "Sometimes all we can do is advise the callers about how to protect themselves," says...
...more than once, you get to know a range of different people. One day she'll tell you "she's only in it for the money"; the next she'll say she gets "pissed off when people say I'm greedy." She'll tell you she is sick of being typecast and yearns for art-house fare, but that she's comfortable in "the small film world" she inhabits, meaning the commercial world of Hong Kong. And she'll do it all from a theatrical trunk of varied voices and styles: Marilyn Monroe one day, bare-midriffed and yet innocent...
Which begs the question: If Lincoln is such a proven winner, why don't more companies play by the same rules? Answer: most companies aren't willing to make the necessary trade-offs. Lincoln may guarantee a job, but not much else. Workers get neither sick days nor holidays and have to pay for their health insurance. Not surprisingly, organized labor, which relies on solidarity, doesn't like the competitive set-up at Lincoln, which isn't unionized. Seniority barely exists: if older workers slow down, their salaries could too. Management also moves employees at will, from payroll and sales...
When he saw Erik Weihenmayer arrive that afternoon, Pasquale Scaturro began to have misgivings about the expedition he was leading. Here they were on the first floor of Mount Everest, and Erik?the reason for the whole trip?was stumbling into Camp 1 bloody, sick and dehydrated. "He was literally green," says fellow climber and teammate Michael O'Donnell. "He looked like George Foreman had beat the crap out of him for two hours." The beating had actually been administered by Erik's climbing partner, Luis Benitez. Erik had slipped into a crevasse, and as Benitez reached down to catch...
...Everybody gets sick on Everest. It's called the Khumbu Krud, brought on by a combination of high altitude, dirty food, fetid water, intestinal parasites and an utterly alien ecosystem. On Erik's team, at any given moment, half the climbers were running fevers, the others were nauseated, and they all suffered from one form or another of dysentery, an awkward ailment when there's a driving snowstorm and it's 30 below outside the tent. You relieve yourself however you can, in the vestibule of your tent or in a plastic bag. "It can be a little bit gross...