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Many if not most of Mitch's victims were youngsters--including not only those who drowned but also those whose malnourished bodies were no match for the deadly septic infections set free in the waters. Says Charles Compton, local head of Plan International relief organization: "We have to keep starvation and infection from claiming as many victims as the hurricane did." When the final tally is in, the assertions of a staggering toll may well be borne out. Those whom the floodwaters did not kill face the problems of isolation, starvation, disease and neglect--the normal stuff of tragedy...
Even scientific research has increased, said Alfred W. Compton, Fisher professor of natural history and a native of South Africa. "There may be a greater willingness [now] on the side of American scientists to visit South Africa," he said...
...fluorescent light. Riding in your car in the half-light, you came to a comfortable brick house on a comfortable, suburban, Truman Show-ish street; walking up, the door wasn't locked, it wasn't even closed, and it creaked open wider when you knocked. This ain't Compton, this ain't the Queensbridge projects, but this is where hip-hop lives in the 9-8: this is the home of Lauryn Hill, rapper/singer/actress, member of the rap trio the Fugees; the woman whose neosoul vocals took a hip-hop remake of Killing Me Softly...
AXAF is the third of NASA's major observatories, along with the Hubble Space Telescope and the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory...
...CREW won Compton...