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...uranium in the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima came from the Congo. So does the cobalt, essential in the construction of advanced fighter aircraft, as well as diamonds, gold and some of the purest copper on the planet. Even the coltan computer chips in the latest Sony Play Station are made from columbite-tantalite, a mineral mined in the Congo...
That afternoon, back at the police station, the officers heard gunfire. It was Balata's answer to the lawmen's incursion. Forty stolen cars rolled slowly out of the camp, each loaded with car thieves firing rifles in the air. Behind them walked hundreds of Balata residents. The criminals drowned the police station and the municipality in the deafening racket of their Kalashnikovs. The people of Nablus fled in fear, and their rulers--the mayor appointed by Arafat, the police chief, the Governor--all got the message: Back off. "Every day there's a fight between someone from Balata...
...want to hold onto their power, squash the press and keep their business monopolies. The lawlessness of the intifadeh has made the squabbles more coldly violent. In February, Abu Amr, the owner of the Beach Hotel in Gaza City, invited Hisham Mikki, the head of the official Palestinian television station, to sit with him in his empty restaurant, smoking a water pipe and looking out over the Mediterranean. Mikki came back from exile with Arafat and amassed a fortune from corrupt deals. He began to puff on a nargileh filled with apple-scented Bahraini tobacco. Barely was the pipe...
...took a few copywriting jobs, for a department store and a radio station. Around that time I came across a book that changed my life. The book, The Magic of Believing by Claude Bristol, is still in print. If I hadn't read it, I don't think I would have made it--the book was that important--because it outlined a system of thought that was the absolute turning point in my life, in my attitude toward myself. Before it, I was so self-conscious and so underestimated myself that a dirty look would deter me. I didn...
...long time to come. It's a cruel group: after their escape last week, the kidnappers beheaded two Filipinos?a cook and security guard seized in the raid on the Dos Palmas tourist resort in the western province of Palawan. Speaking by sat phone to a local radio station, group commander Abu Sabaya said they had also decapitated one of the three American hostages, Californian Guillermo Sobero, although the army said it has no proof of that killing. The group knows the jungle intimately?far better than Manila's men in uniform. For days, the army had no idea where...