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...Somali nurse dressed in white coat and rubber sandals picks his way through the crowd to weed out the youngest, most desperate cases. Gathering them together in another part of the compound, he feeds each one a spoonful of antidiarrhea medicine from a rusty thermos bottle. Every child under five receives a plastic bracelet, which entitles the wearer to a protein biscuit in addition to a bowl of gruel. The bands are color coded; blue for severely malnourished; red for those on the verge of death...
...friend Marty and I dug through his bathroom cabinet in Grays East frantically looking for detergent, or a bottle of Windex, or even a non-dairy whipped topping. Anything that contained an organic compound with a chemical structure we could identify...
...internal HMC documents obtained by TheCrimson suggest that during the five year periodbetween 1986 and 1991, Aeneas' compound annualreturn averaged only 5.4 percent. That would putthe high risk division's returns not only belowHMC's internal benchmark of 11.1 percent for thatperiod, but below the 6.9 percent for that period,but below the 6.9 percent a very safe and highlyconservative investment in 10-year U.S. TreasuryNotes would have brought...
...different ambitions; they are neither good nor bad, exactly, but something else -- Disneyish. The Saudi pavilion, a fake Arab ruin into which a fake nomadic hovel has been inserted, is like a second-rate SITE rip-off -- except that SITE actually designed it. The South Pacific pavilion is a compound of grass huts (or was -- it burned down last week, but is to be rebuilt promptly). New Zealand's conventional steel-and- glass facade gives way at one end to a rugged Pacific promontory, complete with recorded ocean noises, artificial stones and plastic seabirds...
When a polo pony from the royal compound in Jordan plunged into the Gulf of Aqaba and swam to the Israeli resort town of Eilat, local authorities took no chances. They checked to see if the defector was booby-trapped. It wasn't. Though Jordan and Israel are technically at war, Israeli officials returned the pony through a U.N. go-between...