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...Cages" can be found at better comic shops and smart bookstores. Online booksellers have it at a steep discount - "only...
...recent trip to South America, I found coca leaves sold everywhere--in the market, at the store, on the streets. But they are sold as "an anesthetic and a salubrious chew." The porters I hired chewed these leaves to alleviate pain or sickness while hiking the steep trails. Chewing coca leaves is as much a part of South America's culture as drinking Coca-Cola is to ours. Eradicating coca-leaf farms would be stamping out part of another culture. Getting rid of coca leaves will not miraculously eliminate cocaine as a problem. AMY WONG Saratoga, Calif...
...cinder block and poured concrete. It was to be a home for his children and the families they would raise in the independent Palestinian state Sarasra thought would come soon. But in one night that idea turned into broken slabs of concrete and contorted rebar strewn through the steep olive groves...
...still profit from this powerful demographic force, which will run for decades. Indeed, the stock market's steep fall over the past two years has made some traditional age-wave investments cheap again. Pharmaceutical stocks like Pfizer and Wyeth, and financial services stocks like Citigroup, despite its Enron-related woes, and Mellon all make the cut. The real zip, though, is likely to be in less obvious places, and Charles Baird, chairman and founder of the private equity firm North Castle Partners in Greenwich, Conn., believes he has tapped into something big. Baird has invested $800 million in what...
...path to the peak is not difficult to find on your own. Climbing it is another matter. The three-hour hike is strictly for masochists or the blindly devout. The views from the summit, however, redeem the effort. Pony trails snake along mountain ridges, terraced rice paddies tumble down steep slopes, wisps of smoke rise from straw huts, and eagles hover on thermals far below. Those who undertake the climb midweek will, more likely than not, have the summit to themselves. Few experiences can match sitting aloft and alone on Mount Ramelau, enjoying a good Portuguese red with crackers, while...