The manhunters used every trick they could think of, scanning the remote villages along the Bosnia-Montenegro border for signs of unusual activity – internet logons in the middle of the night, TV satellite dishes in otherwise poor settlements, newspaper subscriptions.
Either the colossus had a poor grasp of newspaper matters or he just wasn't too squeamish.
"Calypso was always the music that told the story of the day – it was regarded as the poor man's newspaper," he says.
The report cards have chided colleges for their record in hiring people of color and women to run athletic departments and given poor grades to newspaper sports sections in the United States.
They include not only the French sculptor Auguste Bartholdi, but also Emma Lazarus, author of the famous poem inscribed on the statue's base ("Give me your tired, your poor"), and the newspaper magnate Joseph Pulitzer, who helped raise the money for Liberty's pedestal.
By the late 80s, Escobar had accumulated billions of dollars and established himself as a Medellin folk hero, constructing housing and hospitals for the poor, publishing a newspaper, even opening a zoo for the public.
The plan came to naught, as most Social Credit supporters were too poor to buy newspaper stock, and the only interested buyers were beneficiaries of government patronage, chiefly liquor interests.
"The crop has become a lifeline for the people of Bolivia's Oruro and Potosi regions, among the poorest in what is one of South America's poorest nations," the newspaper reported.
It is a poor reflection on newspapers and some European nations.
Whether that is true is not known, but after their poor showing local newspapers virtually ignored them for the next year and a half.
This estimate of hourly wage (w) allows a rigorous test of the degree to which prospectors selected suboptimal strategies based on poor information from newspapers.
