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...five-year retreatant. Barbara Carr is a school administrator who first went to a monastery two years ago, after her husband of 20 years left her and she developed breast cancer. Retreat for her was a crucial time for praying, crying and writing. Others find piety sometimes takes a backseat to curiosity ("I look at the monks and think, 'I can't believe you're not having sex,'" says Nolan) or humor ("We started calling it the show--'You going to the 6 o'clock show?'" says Branch of the offices. "It was a little ooky-spooky...
...been dazzled by the allure of China as a big market for U.S. products; he seems unable to see that country's true colors. I will say this to the Americans who want to stick their nose into our economic affairs: "You have not been asked to be a backseat driver; mind your own business." TSUTOMU NAKAMURA Kamakura, Japan...
...court-martial against the Marine pilot and navigator involved in a deadly crash in Italy is no surprise -- but the dismissal of charges against the two officers who occupied the backseat of the EA-6B Prowler may spell trouble for the accused. "The two backseaters are responsible for situational awareness, and if it's been decided that they're not culpable, the question is whether they've agreed to testify," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. Their testimony could reveal what happened in the cockpit immediately before the Prowler struck a ski lift, killing 20 people. Initially, the four airmen...
...part mayor, part padre, gets her to tell her story. She was carjacked by a black man, she says. Would she like to talk with a woman detective, Council asks, meaning, was she raped? No, something worse: her four-year-old son Cody was asleep on the car's backseat. Jesse Haus, a white woman reporter for a local daily, picks up the story on her police scanner. To her, as to the detective, it seems fishy. What was Brenda doing at Armstrong Houses? Buying drugs? But she sticks to her story...
...Island, N.Y., are Ted's beautiful wife Marion and daughter Ruth, 4. And there are hundreds of framed photographs on the walls depicting the Cole sons Thomas and Timothy. They were 17 and 15 when they were killed, five years earlier, in a car crash. Their parents, in the backseat, survived unhurt but devastated...