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...after surviving the cocktail hour from hell, I attended a practice session of 127, Iran's hottest underground rock band. Because the regime still pretends to oppose the toxic culture of the West, rock music is semi-taboo, so the band rehearses in a soundproof bunker inside an abandoned greenhouse in a low-rise complex of concrete apartment blocks on the outskirts of the city. The band members compare themselves with writers in Soviet Russia--miserably creative, creatively miserable. They sing in English and dress in the uniform of global grunge: long sideburns, faded Converse sneakers and plaid shirts...
...reports of Cuban cancer patients cured by shark cartilage created a stir in 1993. But a new study of breast- and colorectal-cancer patients in the journal Cancer found that the cartilage didn't help any of them. In fact, it was so toxic, some patients dropped out of the study after a month. --By Sora Song
...comparable index of non-U.S. stocks. (I've entrusted his firm, Third Avenue Management, with some of my own money for nearly a decade, though I don't own any of the stocks mentioned in this column.) At times, his willingness to buy what everyone else regards as toxic can seem almost reckless. In 1998, Wadhwaney?then running a hedge fund for Third Avenue?loaded up on imploding shares of the Noble Group, a Singapore-listed shipping and commodities firm that was losing money; he subsequently rode it to a fiftyfold gain. "The Asian crisis was just madness...
Roma in Kosovo are in danger from a deadly combination of a toxic environment and bureaucratic stalemate. In November 1999, in the aftermath of the war in Kosovo, about 200 Roma, driven from their homes by ethnic Albanian extremists, were placed in refugee camps near Trepca, one of the largest lead-and-zinc mines in Europe. Last June, the World Health Organization (WHO) conducted blood tests on 75 Roma adults and children in the camps; 44 proved to be massively contaminated by lead. The camps have still not been evacuated. Refugees live "the life of animals," says Agron Qosa...
...Montanan, I found it inspiring to read Kirn's Essay. Yes, it's true, we pulled up our bootstraps and elected a Democratic Governor, got rid of saloon smoke, said "Git" to toxic-mining lobbyists and decided that drinking when driving just isn't very American after all. But lest anyone think we're going soft on personal freedoms, Montanans oppose the Patriot Act. We can smell a rat a mile away, and we don't take kindly to the government sneaking things past our good ole red-white-and-blue U.S. Constitution...