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...Hendrawan stands in the slaughtering yard surrounded by piles of yellow and green intestines, the concrete floor awash with blood. On the right, a group of men squat on the floor in a row, holding a four-meter reticulated python. Even in the dim light of the slaughtering shed, the crisscross pattern of green, yellow, henna and black stripes that gave the snake its name glows with vivid life. The men flip the wriggling creature over, exposing its white underbelly. With practiced ease the python is slit open and gutted, then flung into a corner amidst the hoses and plastic...
...spirit was cordial at a small dinner for the Reagans that night given by the Gorbachevs at the Soviets' squat, three-story, modern-style mission in Geneva. In keeping with the Kremlin's temperance campaign, the customary vodka toasts were dispensed with, and the guests sipped white and red wines from Soviet Georgia. Gorbachev and his wife Raisa recounted how they had met at Moscow University, and she lamented that her husband's new job gave her little time to pursue her academic career. The Reagans extolled the charms of California, and Gorbachev boasted about his grandchild, whom he professed...
...worth a little bit of inconvenience." Having snatched a discount by booking online in advance, I paid $85 to rent a car for 24 hours (easyCar rewards early birds - had I just walked in, I would have paid around twice as much) and headed north. Next stop: A weathered, squat building in Milton Keynes, home of the 10-screen easyCinema. At 2 p.m. on a Thursday, the place was almost empty. "It picks up during the evenings and weekends," insisted one assistant, who represented half of the visible staff. Book your seat and print the ticket at home; scanning devices...
Figuring she had little to lose, Martha agreed to the treatment and soon found herself sitting in a chair under a squat, gray crescent that administered a series of magnetic pulses to the top of her head. The treatment lasted for one hour, five times a week, for six weeks. "I started to see signs of change by about the third week," she says. "By September, I was on top again. I could take pleasure in things like food and sunshine." Returning to the institute every once in a while for repeat sessions of what researchers call repetitive transcranial magnetic...
...with a 300,000-strong volunteer militia, scoured the nation but initially failed to turn up more than a handful of potential violators. In one nighttime raid on a building site near the capital, 300 police and immigration officials rousted sleeping workers from their dormitories and forced them to squat in rows on the ground. All proved to have documents, though half a dozen were detained for validity checks. "There is a possibility [the illegals] have gone into hiding because they knew of the crackdown," conceded a slightly sheepish senior official at the scene...