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...public school systems, arms control is an everyday concern. In Boston, for instance, hundreds of knives and other weapons are confiscated from city pupils each year. At one time those caught red-handed were automatically expelled. But for the past year hundreds have been sent instead to a yellow brick school building in the working-class Roslindale section. At the Barron Assessment and Counseling Center, as the place is called, they go through a five-to-ten-day program designed to get them to put down their knives and pick up their books...
...just sort of gone wild." The boys began helping out when they were five or six, and as they grew up and got more involved, Betty specialized in decorating the concrete. When Harper built the shop, which is about a 15-second commute from their red brick, one-story house, Betty got a corner, where she uses an air compressor to spray-paint the animals with automotive-grade enamel. Almost from the beginning, says Harper, "I've been saying I want to slow down. But then I order more molds." That is an expensive habit: the deer mold cost...
...England, he and Sarah spend as much time as possible at Sydmonton, near the Watership Down country of Novelist Richard Adams, where his extensive holdings have made him the squire of two villages. The oldest part of his brick manor house dates back to the 16th century. Each July the estate serves as the site of Lloyd Webber's private Sydmonton Festival, where the composer tries out his works in progress before a specially invited audience. A connoisseur of old English religious architecture, Lloyd Webber often spends Sundays driving around with Sarah to visit churches...
After the tour group registers at the Thang Loi (victory) hotel in Nha Trang, a block from the sea, there are two days to body surf in the warm, gentle swells, drink coconut milk and eat traditional lau soup and spicy crab, as well as view the massive brick Cham temples dating from the 10th century. Following dinner, group activity generally ceases, allowing for solitary strolls or modest forays to local markets, where simple good handicrafts and fresh fruit are available...
...however, TIME has pieced together a detailed, though still incomplete, picture of Gorbachev's early days and his rise to command. The story begins in Privolnoye, a farming village (pop. 3,000) in the south of the Russian republic, 124 miles from the city of Stavropol. A one- story brick cottage with a small kitchen, three rooms and a pleasant garden plot still stands there: Gorbachev was born in that house on March...