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...only one thinking that way. At midday, by a gate in the chain link fence that separates Mexicali from Calexico, Calif., a border-patrol officer ushers a group of deportees back into Mexico. They're all planning return trips. Rocio Moredia sees no other option. She's from Puebla and notes, "There is no work there...
...change. He gives no indication, for instance, that he plans to introduce democracy to the kingdom, whose national assembly comprises 120 appointees. It is just after evening prayers when Abdullah sits back in a stuffed chair for a three-hour discussion of the challenges the kingdom faces. As he chain-smokes his way through a pack of Vantage cigarettes, his bottom line is that change will come, but at a Saudi pace. "It is more rational to change gradually," he explains. "There is less disruption to the social balance." Even a reforming al Saud, it seems, can't escape that...
Prior to the Hague war-crimes tribunals, many brutal murderers and torturers could attempt to excuse themselves by claiming they were only following orders [WORLD, Feb. 18]. And if the person at the top of the chain of command was killed or missing, the accused might get away with their crimes. But we now have an opportunity to prosecute the remorseless Slobodan Milosevic. His acts were worse than those of Osama bin Laden. The genocide and rapes will harm people for generations to come. GURKAN HASIRCIOGLU Centurion, South Africa...
...asks players to act out, draw or sculpt phrases; more than a million copies have been sold. And the tiny, Toronto-based Faby Games saw its Wordthief (a word game played with cards) sell out when it was launched at Barnes & Noble in 2000 and become one of the chain's Top 10 sellers this year. Next up from Faby is National Trash!, a game in which players use sensationalistic words to create tabloid headlines to go with wacky photos. So when it's revealed that Professor Plum did it with the revolver in the study, a new generation...
...Peoria, Ill., junior cooks can whip up such specialties as strawberry salad and mint-brownie pie in classes sponsored by the Peoria Park District. Sur La Table, a nationwide chain that sells specialty cookware, offers summer cooking camps in its stores, with courses that include making sushi, pie baking and a chocolate workshop for teens. The chain also carries children's cookware; in 1997 kids' products accounted for 1% of its sales; today they account for 5%. New York City's American Museum of Natural History invites the children of its members to submit recipes to win a place...