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...indefensible. So the starvation and abuse of Chinese orphans and foundlings documented in the recent highly publicized report from Human Rights Watch/Asia deserves--no, demands--our attention. But what will the nature of that attention be? Since the report's release, the Western press has largely accepted the blanket characterization of China's orphanages as "a secret world of starvation, disease and unnatural death." Never mind that the broad condemnation omits context: by Beijing's own conservative estimate, 70 million of China's 1.2 billion citizens live in poverty. No doubt many of those people too go wanting for food...
Even though Cambridge is covered in an oppressively cold blanket of snow, little signs of life still pop up in the most unexpected places...
...crack addicts, in search of the mother in her late 20s who was reportedly neglecting her child. When they entered the apartment, they encountered mice and five filthy children, some naked, some half-dressed. Though Parent inspected the infant in question, he didn't unwrap the baby's blanket to look at the body or take the child to an emergency room. Four days later, the boy died of severe malnutrition. Although Parent was subsequently exonerated by an internal review board, he remains haunted by guilt. "I was holding this child," he says. "I could have done something...
Other bands included Ground Zero, Spatula, Chickita, Steamship of Beef, Blanket Envy, Three Asians and a Turk and Megasnake (which did not compete for the first-place prize because it included a non-Harvard student member...
Around 2 a.m. on the night of the murders, Evans' live-in boyfriend, James Edwards, returned home from his factory job to be greeted at the front door by a crying, blood-splattered but unharmed Jordan. Inside, he found Evans' body beneath a blanket and Samantha in a rear bedroom. Late Friday night, police tracked down Williams and Caffey, who had Elijah with them. Since July, say prosecutors, Williams had been feigning pregnancy and a delivery date that coincided with Evans'. "[Williams' family] had a baby shower for her, and she never was pregnant," recalls Ward's friend. Williams told...