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...dialogue with long-imprisoned democracy leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, now languishes under house arrest himself. Despite scattered reports of soldiers refusing to shoot against Buddhist monk-led demonstrators last week, most of the wide-eyed recruits obeyed orders. "Burma's military is a breed apart, and its biggest accomplishment is the sense of loyalty that it has bred," says Josef Silverstein, a Burma expert and professor emeritus at Rutgers University in New Jersey. "Few forces appear so unified...
...hailed as a potential reformer for suggesting dialogue with democracy leader Suu Kyi, now languishes under house arrest on corruption charges. Dissident groups in neighboring Thailand are peopled with former army officers who had the temerity to suggest alternative ways to run the country. "Burma's military is a breed apart, and its biggest accomplishment is the sense of loyalty that it has bred," says Josef Silverstein, a Burma expert and retired professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey. "Few forces appear so unified...
...Western Cattle is counting on the same farmers to help them push their agenda for beef. The private company doesn't breed cows; it buys them, fattens them up on a feedlot and then trucks them off to the slaughterhouse. Today, the half million male calves born every year around Hohhot are mostly sold to blood-serum companies that render the animals' plasma into products such as cosmetics. Timberlake, who is the on-site manager for Western Cattle in China, has been going head to head with serum companies since he arrived six months ago, hitting the dairies and villages...
...behind, a deeply flawed character who struggles mightily with issues of morality and faith and who eventually sacrifices personal happiness to do his duty. Guy Crouchback, the protagonist of Waugh’s 1950s “Sword of Honor” trilogy, is a specimen of this breed. When the middle-aged gentleman is introduced, he seems unlikely to do anything interesting. The only surviving son of an ancient but dwindling Anglo-Catholic family, Guy lives in self-imposed exile, completely removed from his friends and relations while his estranged wife marries and divorces a string of wealthier...
Awareness of the plight of the "kids from the creek" began in Utah about four years ago. Volunteers working with street kids and runaways began to notice a new breed of homeless teen who didn't have the survival and social skills other teens had. But long before public awareness began to rise, Brenda Jensen, a co-director at Hope Organization, took runaway boys into her home. She fled the FLDS 30 years ago and married a fellow exile from another polygamist group...