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...Despite his mass media ubiquity over the past several days, Walker remains a mystery. Here's what we know: He comes from a well-to-do home in suburban San Francisco. We've learned that an adolescent fascination with Islam led to his conversion and subsequent embrace of the Bay Area Muslim community. This interest, in other words, was not a passing fancy. After his high school graduation, Walker's passion for his adopted religion spurred trips to Yemen and later to Pakistan, where he was last heard from in May of this year...
...Thailand, being from the right family too often counts for more than being right. The scions of privileged military and business families have sometimes literally gotten away with murder. There are scantrepercussions when a well-to-do ne'er-do-well has a few too many drinks and throws a few too many punches, even when some unlucky Thai ends up dead. But now the Thai public, long resigned to police corruption and military imperiousness, is scandalized by the latest case of a rich kid going...
...dramatic than the surgery itself--Barnard called the technique "basic"--was that he proceeded when other heart-transplant surgeons, who had operated only on animals, were reluctant. An antiapartheid activist, he caused a stir when he later transplanted the heart of a young man of mixed race into a well-to-do white man. The thrice-married Barnard unabashedly enjoyed the fruits of his fame. "I love the female sex," he told TIME earlier this month. "I like to enjoy life...
...time in Venice, more than two centuries ago, the gondola was a kind of horse and buggy for every well-to-do family. Now it's primarily for tourists. The basic shell - no seats, no brass ornaments, no extras - costs about $22,000. If you load it with everything, the price can run to about $36,000. A key element in any gondola is the forcola, which serves as an oar post but in fact is often a work of art. There are only three people left who carve forcole out of large pieces of walnut...
...recent Glass money pitch for public radio hijacked the form and, I am sure, brought home the bacon. He found and interviewed a well-to-do gent who had neglected to contribute to his station. "But you listen to the station. You enjoy the programs. The station pays me. Do you think I should work for nothing?" Glass asked. "Well, no, I..." the man replied. And then there followed an impossibly long pause, which just got longer and longer, and sadder and funnier...