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Hoffa was presumably murdered in 1975, when he disappeared without a trace. But Hoffa's successor, Frank Fitzsimmons, continued to allow Dorfman to control the union's pension fund, and Dorfman prospered in the murky, billion-dollar swamp of Teamsters loans and land deals. A dapper dresser fond of a round of golf and the company of old cronies, he lived with his wife Lynn in a $750,000 home in the Chicago suburb of Riverwoods...
...Sudd, Arabic for barrier, is aptly named. Its central 7,000 sq. mi. are permanently clogged with reeds and papyrus and infested with 63 species of mosquito. From May to October, the White Nile floods and temporarily extends the swamp another 4,300 sq. mi. Says Daniel Yong, a member of the area's nomadic Dinka tribe and a Jonglei Canal project official: "In the rainy season there is water everywhere, but in the dry season you can die of thirst." The Sudd proved an obstacle to 19th century explorers, but today it is more of a hindrance...
...genes, but experiments have shown that the environment the rat is raised in has a profound effect on the ultimate state of its brain "Look," Konner says frankly. "Experience changes the brain." Indeed, in many cases, "the nongenetic sources of variation in behavior may be so large as to swamp any effects of the genes...
...turmoil it suffers, the country remains a miracle. Read some 19th century accounts of Palestine by travelers like Mark Twain and note their dismay at the dreariness around them. Then look at the Hula Valley in the north, with its plums and avocados springing from a former swamp; or at the universities and concert halls; or, abstractly, at the only working democracy in the region. The cause for outrage at Israel's undemocratic practices on the West Bank is that they violate the country's own standards, not those of the Arab world...
...ground into a black mush the locals call "gumbo." While strings of floating booms helped contain the spill, a four-man team from Peterson Maritime Services, the largest private firm in the gulf area treating oil spills, began tossing out about 100 lumpy white squares from their flat-bottomed swamp boats. Almost at once, the muck began to stick to the pillows. When they were pulled from the river 15 min. later, clear water miraculously began to drain from them, while each 8-oz. bag retained 8 lbs. of oil sludge. Says Peterson's Ben Benson...