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...biological weapons. He spent much of his time in the 1980s buying tons of growth medium, which scientists use to cultivate germs. "We were like traders." he says. "The scientists would tell us what they wanted, and we got it." After Gulf War I, he entertained a steady stream of U.N. weapons inspectors wanting to know what had happened to all that growth medium, how had it been used, what was left...
...gesture-driven language of children is rarely conventional to begin with. “Their type of communication is incredible,” she says. Words, however, can’t be completely discredited; Hammond’s friendship with her Best Buddy, Season (pronounced Say-ZAHN), is a stream of endless chatter...
...What has turned the industrialized world's chronic underachiever into everybody's favorite comeback story is a stream of unexpectedly sunny economic news. The most notable number: the government's recent announcement that Japan's economy grew at a sprightly annualized rate of 3.9% in the second quarter of this year. Not only was that far greater than the already healthy 2.4% annualized rate previously forecast, but it was also the fastest growth rate during that quarter for any of the world's major industrialized economies...
Rapper Aesop Rock squeezes every last drop of expressive juice from the English language by riddling his rapid-fire stream-of-consciousness flow with taught one-liners and idioms turned on their heads. He manufactures his songs from scratch, complimenting his urgent vocals with his own production. On his recently released Bazooka Tooth, he speaks on such topics as 9-11, violence in popular culture and mankind’s struggle against the machines of its creation. Ace takes the stage with Boston hip-hop legend Mr. Lif, and Def Jux collegue and collaborator El-P. $17.50 advance...
...strands of hair, slicked down over his head-refuses to grant us permission to travel the western fork of the highway, even though construction is nearly finished. Mr. Truong surprises us by talking the guard at the government checkpoint into letting us through. The road lies between a stream and a cliff overgrown with ferns. It offers some of the most stunning scenery we've seen, but the construction workers-who insist we join them in a noontime toast of rice wine-are less charmed by it: two of their colleagues are bedridden with malaria. There are other dangers: since...