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Journalists never forget their landscapes of the dead. Photographer David Burnett, on assignment for TIME, spent five days last month at two of the camps set up for Ethiopia's starving population. Says he: "It is not the millions who really batter at your emotions. It is each individual person, like the little naked girl I photographed sitting on a rock: she was not strong enough to stand, not strong enough even to eat. I still see her face." Burnett was also struck by individual images of compassion. "There were so many loving moments, a mother with her baby...
...thirds of the local voters. It also provided for a property tax rebate (average amount: $300) for 40% of the state's households. The proposal attracted a diverse chorus of critics, including Republican Governor George Deukmejian and the AFL-CIO, who warned voters that Proposition 36 would batter local governments and damage the state's credit rating...
...spectacle of a designated hitter who bats ninth (.200) is at least as funny as a cleanup batter who hits .228 (Padres Third Baseman Graig Nettles). However, on an impulse, Williams decided to upgrade Bevacqua to the sixth slot for Game 2, and his three hits included a three-run homer, just his second of the year. "I'll do anything to get in the papers," he had proved before, but never so conventionally. (Larry Herndon, the silent Tiger who had an equally telling homer the day before, does anything to stay out of them.) After blowing kisses around...
Again, the Tigers did what they had to do -- they shut down leadoff batter Whillie Wilson and Brett, the No. 3 hitter...
...capacity crowd of 52,168 jammed Tiger Stadium, chanting louder and louder as each Royals batter fell. A cadre of policeman emerged on the field at the start of the eighth inning and ringed the field...