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...family's small apartment in downtown Pristina, Alban Neziri, 23, coolly, methodically narrates his harrowing story. He says he was arrested last February as a suspected founding member of the K.L.A. and during his 10 months in prison was repeatedly tortured. "At the beginning, they beat me with plastic batons on the bottom of my feet," Neziri says. "That lasted 15 to 20 minutes. After that, they began to hit me on my kidneys. They do that with the point of the baton. After that, they began on my hands." By the end of the two-to-three-hour "interrogation...
Washington wants smaller--or at least cleaner. At the Detroit show this year, the Big Three did their save-the-earth bit by displaying some "clean" concept cars. Chrysler unveiled its ESX2, which combines lightweight construction, plastic body panels and a hybrid power train (a small diesel engine, batteries and electric motor) to get 70 m.p.g. Ford displayed a concept vehicle fabricated out of aluminum, titanium and carbon fiber that gets up to 63 m.p.g. and weighs 40% less than a Taurus. Ford promised to adapt its Windstar minivan, classified as a truck, to meet lower emissions...
...consumers, the world of plastic is not looking so fantastic anymore. AT&T Corp.'s departure from the business--its Universal Card portfolio is being sold to Citibank for $3.5 million--is the latest buyout, as the industry consolidates in an attempt to get back on the gravy train it once rode. With fewer big competitors, the remaining card issuers are getting less generous. AT&T's initial no-fee offer inspired a wink of inducements from other issuers, each upping the ante with low initial rates and rebates. And consumers snapped them up, stuffing an average of seven cards...
Some 55 million to 60 million households owe more than $7,000 on their plastic, according to the Consumer Federation of America (up from $6,000 last year). That means they already pay at least $1,000 a year in fees and interest. The average interest rate is 18.84%, up from 17.7% a year ago. Mellon Bank of Pittsburgh, Pa., assesses its cardholders $15 for not charging during a six-month period. If you cancel your card account with Advanta Bank of Wilmington, Del., it may impose a $25 fee as a parting gift. Warns McKinley: "There are going...
...school had been invaded, and officials were banning brushes and putting coats in plastic bags to seal off the points of attack. Five nurses worked all morning on the heads of 600 children at the Rachel Carson Elementary School in Gaithersburg, Md., spending five to seven minutes per scalp, looking for signs of infestation. In the end, 12% of the students and 10% of the staff were sent home. It was the worst invasion of head lice in a long time. "In other years we have two, sometimes four cases of lice," says Laura Hart Silkwood, the principal. "This...