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...straight-on attitude of earlier segments have had impact. India's Suditya Sinha, 13, reports he resolved not to buy anything made of mahogany and to use cloth bags instead of plastic after seeing an MTV Asia feature on deforestation. "I was horrified. I never realized things were so bad," he says. In Brazil 20% more youth (ages 16-22) voted in April's constitutional referendum than in the previous presidential election; MTV Brasil believes the boost is partly related to its "Plebescito" campaign, urging kids to vote "because the world is upside down and God is really busy these...
...street while Somalis kicked and stamped at him, plus TV footage of a terrified helicopter pilot, Michael Durant, being questioned by Somali captors. Late in the week the Somalis allowed a Red Cross worker and two journalists to visit Durant as he lay, naked except for a piece of cloth stretched across his hips, on a wooden bed in a darkened room. Though he did not say so himself, his story -- ground out with difficulty; he said, "The right side of my face, my lip, even my teeth seem paralyzed" -- made it obvious Aidid's people are keeping him alive...
...inconsistent. In addition, he gave insufficient deference to committee chairmen like Sam Nunn and Pat Moynihan and paid dearly for the slights: Nunn has nearly shut down Clinton on gays in the military, and Moynihan last week suggested that Clinton's health- care financing scheme was spun from whole cloth...
This summer's renovation of Holyoke Center could have added some greenery, providing spectacular natural color around the building. Instead, its renovators strung up pieces of colored cloth...
Archaeologists digging in southeastern Turkey have unearthed what appears to be the oldest piece of cloth ever found. The partly fossilized swatch measures 1 1/2 in. by 3 in., and was wrapped around the handle of a tool made from an antler. It's presumed to be linen, and it has been dated to about 7000 B.C., making it at least 500 years older than any other cloth previously discovered...