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...looked up at the crowded bus, the 32-year-old Chinese factory worker caught sight of a blond woman releasing Christian pamphlets into the air. Ma never saw her again, but the woman's airborne message stayed with him. Today, five months after he first read the booklet, Ma leads a dozen underground worshippers near Changsha, capital of central Hunan province. "Christianity fills my heart," he says of his illegal religious activity. "It makes the problems of today's society much more tolerable...
...work our way through a booklet and illustrated skills cards along with the videos, practicing on one another and a dummy named Little Anne. She has a rougher day than I do: she chokes, stops breathing dozens of times and rarely has a pulse. The best way to learn practical things is through repetition, and we go through the procedure "check, call, care"--in which one checks an accident scene for safety, calls (or dispatches someone else to call) 911 and then ministers to the victim--countless times. Finally, an instructor tells me that I've restored Anne's breathing...
...work our way through a booklet and illustrated skills cards along with the videos, practicing on one another and a dummy named Little Anne. She has a rougher day than I do: she chokes, stops breathing dozens of times and rarely has a pulse. The best way to learn practical things is through repetition, and we go through the procedure "check, call, care" - in which one checks an accident scene for safety, calls (or dispatches someone else to call) 911 and then ministers to the victim - countless times. Finally, an instructor tells me that I've restored Anne's breathing...
...under siege. Richard Butler growls that "Jews run the government" and that "Jewish conspirators" are intent on destroying him. A portrait of Butler's hero, Adolf Hitler, hangs on the wall, and white-robed figurines of Ku Klux Klansmen decorate a shelf. He fiddles with a booklet of Nazi war art and clicks his teeth as he talks. At 82, he has failed in his goal of founding a whites-only homeland, and now he faces the prospect of being driven from his last redoubt...
...under siege. Richard Butler growls that "Jews run the government" and that "Jewish conspirators" are intent on destroying him. A portrait of Butler's hero, Adolf Hitler, hangs on the wall, and white-robed figurines of Ku Klux Klansmen decorate a shelf. He fiddles with a booklet of Nazi war art and clicks his teeth as he talks. At 82, he has failed in his goal of founding a whites-only homeland, and now he faces the prospect of being driven from his last redoubt...