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...mosque not far from Bukit Indah, the 30-year-old farmer lifts his shirt to reveal thick, track-like scars, the remnants of wounds he says he received last summer when soldiers, assigned to defend ExxonMobil employees and property, whipped him nightly for a month with ropes of barbed wire. He was also burned with cigarettes and beaten unconscious with a wooden board. They did not kill him, but he wishes they had. Then he would not have had to watch the soldiers shoot his brother in the head...
...winter. Since 1999, the biologists have been attaching "pop-up tags" to great whites. These continually measure the shark's position, depth, speed and direction, and store the data in digital archives. After six months, the tiny computer in the tag sends an electric current through a magnesium burn wire, which dissolves in the seawater and allows the tag to pop up to the surface. The tag transmits a GPS locator signal, and when satellites get a fix on it, they upload all the archived data of the shark's movements. The distances are likely to be huge. A shark...
Need some fast cash? Deepgreen Bank will wire you as much as $25,000 in 20 minutes. In the market for a mortgage? Everbank will shell out $300 if you find a competitor with lower rates. Savings account? ING Direct offers 4.75% interest--no fees or minimum balance required. All good deals, but we doubt you'll take the bait. E-banks, it seems, can't even give money away. Despite being offered great rates, muscular security and ubiquitous ATMs, consumers are reluctant to store money in the ether. They fear thieving hackers, even though the deposits are federally insured...
...patsy has a copy of a videotape showing whodunit. Liujian hooks up with an American, Jessica (Bridget Fonda), whom Richard has forced into prostitution and drug addiction, and whose daughter Richard is holding as collateral. He's mean! But not resourceful enough to overcome the fighting skills and wire work of one determined Chinese...
...over to Brazil, and those of Turkey have set off the usual round of bad mouthing of emerging markets from the always overpaid, usually undereducated people who run London's trading desks and the world's major (mostly American) investment banks. Their juvenile views get instant exposure on the wire services, TV talk shows and the business dailies. Western orthodoxy tells us to believe that markets deliver rational results. But in practice, crowd psychology rules currency and stock markets...