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...argument for equal distribution of pain may be seriously misguided in this case, for several reasons. The first is that the BIA, which makes up 26% of the Interior Department's budget, would absorb 45% of the department's overall reductions. The second has to do with the Indians' abject destitution. Despite the arrival of gambling facilities on reservations, which has enriched a handful of tribes and made a few dozen more comfortable, a third of the country's 2 million Native Americans live below the poverty line. On the reservations, where per capita income averages $4,500, half...
They stumbled toward the riverbanks, some crying out, "Mizu, mizu!" (Water, water); the temperature and their injuries had left them severely dehydrated. Because light colors reflect heat and dark ones absorb it, some bomb victims had the images of their clothing tattooed on their flesh: the pattern of a kimono on a woman's back, the unburned swath left by a sash around the waist of an otherwise charred man. "Big black flies appeared and tried to lay eggs on human flesh," says survivor Michiko Watanabe, now 65. "The injured were so weak that they couldn't brush away...
...ability of A.A. to thrive elsewhere in the world suggests that the organization is adaptive enough to absorb all these cultural shifts. For one thing, if a visitor does not like one meeting, there is often another somewhere else nearby. "People vote with their feet," says Peter. "At some point a lot of groups won't be A.A. groups anymore. I won't be in those meetings." Jim, a 30-year veteran who is a partner in a top-flight Boston law firm, remains sanguine. "Right from the beginning, A.A. was a cross section that reflected what was happening...
...theater has been a place for theater to reflect on words," Devitt said. "Physical theater allows that same process with images. Theater can help us absorb, process and reflect on the flood of images...
...longer-term picture is cloudier. Synergy is the business world's most over-hyped concept, and the Internet is a market where just about everyone is betting but almost no one is yet taking home winnings. A similar deal two years ago, in which Bell Atlantic proposed to absorb the cable giant Tele-Communications Inc., was called off before it could go forward. While MCI has a strong customer base among businesses, for instance, News Corp. has little in the way of business information services to offer them. For Murdoch, the most important advantage of MCI's already established presence...