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Relief workers' mounting frustration with the oustedRwandan militia's virtual takeover of refugee campspeaked today when a leading aid group, Doctors Without Borders, pulled out of five refugee camps in eastern Zaire. The group says it will leave the region entirely unless soldiers and armed youths loyal to Rwanda's old Hutu government -- the same gangs that massacred up to 500,000 rival Tutsis this year -- stop stockpiling relief supplies and intimidating others Hutus from returning home. TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief Andrew Purvis says the move may finally prompt the United Nations to send in a promised police force...
Rodriguez Orejuela is a soft-spoken 56-year-old who complains of migraines and an expanding waistline. Since the bloody demise of Pablo Escobar of the competing Medellin cartel last year, Gilberto, in partnership with his brother Miguel and other members of the Cali cartel, has achieved a virtual monopoly on the world cocaine trade. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration estimates that along with smaller groups, Rodriguez exports 700 tons of the drug annually. Thus he is a major contributor to America's drug plague and its attendant tragedies: the crack babies, the drive-by deaths, the myriad other lives...
...virtual staples of the end of an Ivy League men's soccer season...
Here's the catch. If your computer transmits data that the network finds unacceptable, a virtual "roadblock" is placed on your entrance ramp. In network parlance, this is called the "partitioning" of your data jack...
...RFLP methodology was first introduced and developed in England," says Paul B. Ferrara, director of the Virginia division of Forensic Sciences and chair of the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors Accreditation Board. The test "gives rise to a virtual identification with a match at 5, 6, or 7 locations giving statistics showing us something like [only] one in 100 million" people could match...