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...Pacquiao has a myth of origin equal to that of any Greek or Roman hero. Aban-doned by his father and brought up by a tough-as-nails mother, the poor boy who loves to box is rejected by a local squad but then journeys many islands away, to the country's metropolis, Manila, to make it big. Then he leaves the Philippines to make it even bigger, conquering the world again and again to bring back riches to share with his family and friends. Now, in his hometown of General Santos City on the island of Mindanao...
...more faceoffs like the one this past weekend. Experts say the odds are still against an armed clash between the two - but they aren't quite as long as they were just one week ago. "We're not looking for bloodshed. Nobody wants this," Expatriates Minister Bouthaina Sha'aban told TIME. "But if it comes to us, we will fight...
...preserves the integrity of each song with specific and taut strokes, but incorporates enough elements of personal style--distorted vocals, plodding bass or cavernous echo--that the artist cannot be misidentified. "My Beautiful Leah," in which a phlegmy and diseased voice seeks clues to track the route of an aban-doing lover, lumbers thick and ungainly as a sauropod; "The Garden," by contrast, lilts and whispers like a dryer, spindlier version of Tori Amos's piano confessionals...
ELECTRONICS. With many small producers (especially of semiconductors) aban doning the field and others curtailing product lines, the electronics industry's vast overcapacity began to dwindle, and some profits curves turned up. Research-heavy Raytheon, which is engaged in an intensive cost-cutting program, increased its earnings 83% to $2,500,000. But once glamorous Texas Instruments, still heavily in semiconductors, slipped 36% to $2,400,000-though the company saw enough promise in its future to declare a cash dividend of 20? a share, its first since...
Dutch marines discovered a band of 30 In donesians on Waigeo Island off New Guin ea's western tip; the Indonesians aban doned their food and ammunition and fled...