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Charge card-industry officials decline to say how much they are losing to skimmers--in part because they don't want to scare customers out of using their plastic. But an analysis of industry-published figures suggests that skimmers reaped about $125 million last year, and Secret Service agents suspect that the number is actually higher, with much of that plunder going to international crime rings. "It's not unusual," says Regan, "to see a card compromised in New York City or Washington and the numbers used overseas, in Taiwan, Japan or Europe, within 24 to 48 hours...
...birth process that makes them feel even marginally useful. (When my daughters were born, I should say on my behalf, I also sang along with the Muzak in the labor room in what I thought was a rather entertaining manner and occasionally asked my wife to dance.) I suspect that it's quite common for a father to come across a picture of his newborn baby some months after the blessed event and feel appalled that he once shoved the bizarre image he sees before him into the face of everyone he met, like a voodoo sorcerer trying to startle...
...intelligence agents accused of carrying out the bombing. "The trial is to determine whether or not these two guys actually carried out the attack," says TIME correspondent William Dowell. "It was never going to deal with the question of on whose behalf they might have acted. It had been suspected for a long time that the Libyans might have been acting for someone else, and Iran had always been the prime suspect." Behbahani suggested that the attack was a retaliation for the mistaken shooting down by a U.S. warship of an Iranian airliner earlier in 1988. "The question remains whether...
...concerns over genetically altered crops may be more culturally based. To be sure, the continent's headline writers use terms such as "contamination" to refer to the introduction of genetically altered seed in Europe, whereas such practices are commonplace in the U.S. But while some in Washington may suspect this concern disguises a more basic economic nationalism, it may also be a reflection of deep philosophical differences. "There's a fundamental difference in attitude at work on this issue," says Graff. "The Europeans insist on a precautionary principle, which holds that unless you can scientifically prove that something is absolutely...
...indicted by an Alabama grand jury on murder charges stemming from the 1963 bombing of a church in Birmingham that killed four black girls at Sunday school. Both men maintain their innocence. The attack was one of the most horrific crimes of the civil rights era, but only one suspect in the case, Robert E. Chambliss--who was convicted of murder in 1977 and died in jail in 1985--had been brought to justice. The involvement of several others had long been suspected...