Word: smalls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What the refugees left behind was a Serb spasm of looting, terror and executions; what they encountered on the other side of the frontier was a teeming mess of poverty, hunger and disease. In Rozaje refugees drifted through the streets, hungry and shell-shocked; some would come across small obstacles and simply stop and weep. Doctors scrambled to prevent the crowding and dismal sanitation from causing a tuberculosis epidemic, but their efforts seemed of little use. "People don't even have spoons, so everyone eats from one bowl. Women are giving birth next to men with...
...There's a constant trade show going on," says Steve Karas, of New York, who auctions sports cards on the site. By taking a 1.25%-to-5% cut on each of those exchanges, eBay is one of the few Net start-ups to turn a profit--albeit a small one--on sales of $47 million last year. Since eBay acts as an intermediary with little or no overhead to cover, "consumer-to-consumer auctions can be like printing money," says Marc Johnson, senior analyst at Jupiter Communications. No wonder investors have valued the fledgling company at a monstrous $16 billion...
...many of eBay's merchants, the Anzardos are proud of their spotless service record: they've received more than 300 positive-feedback ratings on the site's system, which lets prospective buyers gauge the honesty of a seller before sending off a fat check in the mail. However, a small group of parasites, including a Florida eBay user who was recently ordered to pay $23,000 in restitution, continue to plague this electronic marketplace. Two-thirds of all Internet fraud complaints last year were directed at auction sites, according to the National Consumers' League. And antique dealers, who quickly adapted...
Deutsche Bank provided a line of credit to a small company that built the walls, bridges, floors and roofs of Auschwitz. One imagines the bill for the construction of such things: walls, bridges, floors and roofs, $6 million; towers and searchlights, $4 million; wire fences, dogs and guns, $2 million; showers, $3 million; ovens, $12 million. Now one imagines a bill presented by the survivors consisting of the same items with some additional incidental charges for medical experimentation and the extraction of teeth. Naturally, today's bill would have to be adjusted for 1990s dollars. The mere image...
...strikes 130,000 Americans each year, there's surprisingly little research about the best way to monitor a patient's condition after his or her tumor has been removed. The goal, of course, is to catch any metastasis, or spreading of the original cancer, while it is still small and treatable. To do that, physicians rely on everything from blood tests to computerized X rays, or C.T. scans, to detect new tumors in the liver and lungs, among other places. Unfortunately, no one knows which combination of tests over what time frame offers the best results...