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...County, 62% in Lee County and 102% in Russell County. In Buchanan, where the jail typically holds more than twice the 34 inmates it was built to accommodate, the sheriff's department was so bogged down with drug-related crime that it dropped out of a four-county drug task force in order to concentrate on its own problems. In Lee, which has the same jail-crowding problem as Buchanan, local authorities have called on federal prosecutors to help take prescription-pill abusers off the street. The feds can use their power to charge abusers with crimes that carry more...
...terror" for military psychiatrists and psychologists to take part in interrogations. Now some mental-health professionals, even within the military, are growing concerned that colleagues who have helped interrogators may have broken the first rule of medical ethics: Do no harm. The American Psychological Association has organized a task force to investigate the work--much of which is shrouded in secrecy--and to craft ethical guidelines...
...Hong Kong filmmakers know the promise China holds, but making a movie that works in the mainland and in Hong Kong is no easy task. One man who figured out how to straddle the border is Hong Kong's Stephen Chow, whose Kung Fu Hustle took in $20 million on the mainland and a record $8 million at home, and is on a pace for $100 million globally. It's tough to copy Chow's style, but his film may provide a blueprint for a changing industry. Shot in China with a cast and crew that was mostly from Hong...
...East River, and finally he gets promoted to working on the bridge's two towers. As the narrative flows forward, Gaffney's hero gets a series of names and aliases--George Geiermeier, Robert Koch, Frank Harris--and his construction work becomes a metaphor for the immigrant's task of building a new life and a new identity in the New World: "Experience had taught him that he could be whoever he or someone else wanted...
...task he does well. In 1997, while working for a multinational mining-finance group, he was among the first investors in Sina.com which became one of the world's largest Internet portals. His prescience won the attention of Beijing economic planners eager to set up a local VC firm to jump-start the country's technology sector, and in 1999--with $5 million in state investment and a board of directors made up of senior government ministers--NewMargin entered the market as an odd hybrid of old-school state planning and free-market hustle. It now counts telecom giants like...