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Thus the break between the President and Enrile was at last complete. On Friday morning, during a groundbreaking ceremony for a new chapel on the outskirts of Manila, she went out of her way to thank him for the role he had played in the February revolt, but he was not pres-ent to receive the compliment. In a ceremony at the Defense Ministry four hours later, Enrile received the Philippine Legion of Honor, the nation's highest civilian award, which is customarily presented to the recipient by the President in person. On this occasion, however, Aquino...
...each child is maturing, even where a family lives. Children from rural backgrounds, particularly farms, are more in tune with sex and reproductive cycles than their supposedly sophisticated urban counterparts. The experts offer general guidelines based on experience. Leah Lefstein, acting director of the Center for Early Adolescence in Chapel Hill, N.C., notes, "Kids are aware of human sexuality at an earlier age than we give them credit for. They are three years old when they want to know where babies come from." And they can understand simple, descriptive answers. Says Sharon Shilling, a Denver sex-education expert: "When they...
Grufferman too was skeptical -- until examination of the slides showed that one patient indeed had Burkitt's lymphoma. With Dr. Joseph Pagano, a cancer virologist at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, he promptly launched an investigation. Soon, Pagano recalls, "we realized that a virus was a more likely explanation than any other...
...Holden Chapel, which he says was the first cadaver room of the Harvard Medical School, also abounds with ghosts. "And in Massachusetts Hall," he says, "there are a couple of ghosts who are passing as people...
...Sistine Chapel, but it's not a bad paint job," said Rep. Dan Lungren, R-Calif., who played a major role in writing the bill...