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...combination of drought and civil war has uprooted as many as 2 million people from their villages and forced them into a nomadic existence. About 100,000 of these refugees, many of them orphaned children, live in more than 100 resettlement camps, most of them strung out along Mozambique's 1,500-mile coastline. "At the worst time, a year ago, we were getting 50 to 75 people a day," says Alberto Cavele, director of the resettlement camp at Cambine, near the coastal city of Inhambane. "Some people have walked here from 250 miles away. And some died...
...began writing computer programs at the age of twelve and sold one to Apple Computer a year later. Now, at 15, Cyrille de Vignemont has become the youngest member of Jacques Chirac's government and France's most youthful civil servant ever. De Vignemont, as a special consultant to the Ministry of Civil Service and Planning, will advise Minister Hervé de Charette on the needs and hopes of French youth...
...first Abraham escapes Roman soldiers. He flees to Alexandria with his sons, who thrive until a civil war inflames the population. His grandson ventures to Rome, where persecutions resume; a few chapters later, a descendant is in North Africa, courting the daughter of a Jewish Berber. The holders of the scroll move to Spain, to Narbonne, to Italy and Salonika, Holland and Paris and Poland, where the final chapter is inscribed in ashes...
...dozens of painters like Jules Breton, Jules Bastien-Lepage and Jean François Millet. Homer's own America had its anxieties too--immense ones. Nothing in its cultural history is more striking than the virtual absence of any mention of the central American trauma of the 19th century, the Civil War, from painting. Its fratricidal miseries were left to writers (Walt Whitman, Stephen Crane) to explore, and to photographers. But painting served as a way of oblivion--of reconstructing an idealized innocence. Thus, as Dr. Cooper points out, Homer's 1870s watercolors of farm children and bucolic courtships...
...Civil War Ransom. When Confederate soldiers surrounded Frederick, Md., in 1864 and threatened to destroy federal stores unless a ransom was paid, townspeople rustled up $200,000. The victorious Union never repaid the money, and outgoing Maryland Senator Charles Mathias has been trying to collect it for a dozen years. Last week he finally succeeded...