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International aid organizations are always alarmist, but they warn that based on their fragmented evidence, 2 million to 5 million people could starve to death. U.N. agencies and independent groups say 70% of this year's corn crop is lost, and half the nation's grain supply consists of corn. Jin Zhe, a shopkeeper in Yanji, a Chinese border city, visited her relatives' village in North Korea three months ago. "No one in the whole village worked," she says. "There was nothing to do, and people were too weak to work...
...worse things may already be happening to their E-mail. Many office electronic-mail systems warn users that the employer reserves the right to monitor their E-mail. In October software will be available to Wall Street firms that can automatically monitor correspondence between brokers and clients through an artificial-intelligence program that scans for evidence of securities violations...
Efforts to protect the elderly are picking up. Senior Sleuths, formed in 1989 by the Florida attorney general's office, deploys 550 people in sting operations to gather evidence against scammers. A.A.R.P. has mounted a reverse boiler-room operation in several states. It phones seniors to warn them that their names appear on mooch lists confiscated by police...
...worst threat most creatures of the sea had faced at fishermen's hands was so-called commercial extinction. Whenever local populations of a particular fish plummeted, boats simply targeted some other species or moved to more distant waters. The depleted stocks almost always recovered. But now, experts warn, unprecedented forces--among them, industrial-scale fishing gear and a burgeoning global seafood market--are altering this age-old cycle. The economic and technological barriers that have kept overfishing within bounds appear increasingly shaky, like dikes along a river that floodwaters have undermined. Should these barriers collapse, commercial extinction could escalate into...
...being investigated," Paige Patterson of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement told reporters. "There have been some real positive tips, but obviously he has not been arrested yet." Authorities, who believe Cunanan may be lashing out at the gay community because he may have the AIDS virus, warn he is still armed and dangerous and will kill again if not caught. To prevent more bloodshed, The Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce upped the ante on Cunanan's head by offering a $45,000 reward in addition to the $20,000 reward already on the table. A memorial service will...