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...Millie Wilcox, 60, thinks she knows. The retired nurse and mother of two grown boys (one of them being this writer) doesn't have a Ph.D. in child psychology, just a memory of her own Ohio childhood picking elderberries in the alley and once - imagine doing this today - playing house inside a cardboard box set smack dab in the middle of the street. "There wasn't so much traffic back then," says Wilcox, "and it seems like every neighborhood had a vacant lot. Vacant lots were important. Plus, our mothers were around during the day, and they knew everyone...
RUMBLE SEAT If you think digital surround sound is for sissies and you've got a spare $16,000, the Odyssee Motion Simulator may be right up your alley. Four hydraulic "actuators" rattle and shake your La-Z-Boy like an amusement-park ride in perfect synch with such action-adventure movies as Twister and Jurassic Park. The device moves your seat only five-eighths of an inch, but that's enough to convince your body that a certain T. rex is getting closer every second...
...daughter wouldn't leave, the mother threatened to sell the house to get rid of her daughter. Then she walled off her daughter's room with plywood partitions, leaving the daughter a pariah, alone in a cramped, dark space without windows and only a flimsy door opening into the alley. Laetitia must earn the pennies to feed herself and her children by peddling beer, cigarettes and candy from a shopping cart in her room, when people are brave enough to stop by her door. "Sometimes they buy, sometimes not," she says. "That is how I'm surviving...
...cried to Jalila, "Don't leave me, Mother!" The man with the pistol pushed Jalila away and forced Adnan onto his knees in the empty street. His first shot hit Adnan in the shoulder; the next entered his neck and killed him. As the two gunmen hurried down an alley, Jalila wailed over her son's body. "God is most great," she lamented. On her knees, the grief-stricken woman took the blood from Adnan's wounds and smeared it across her face...
...Palestinians took great umbrage. Protests quickly led to violence, and in the next week rocks, firebombs and bullets claimed the lives of some 70 people and injured more than 1,800 others. It didn't stop there: in October this young Palestinian hurled a molotov cocktail into an alley in Ramallah; whether there were victims of this particular assault is uncertain, but by mid-November the death toll had climbed to 270, most of them Palestinians. The three participants in the earlier U.S. meeting found themselves caught in various binds: President Bill Clinton was desperate for a large foreign policy...