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...from school to find police surrounding his home. Twenty days later, the authorities broke in to discover his granny and aunt hanging side by side in a dual suicide, presumably to avoid persecution. They incarcerated the boy's mother in the kindergarten where she taught. She slept on a cot in the storeroom. The boy slept beside her. They refused to renounce Falun Gong. Last December, when a labor-camp sentence seemed certain, the mother entrusted her son to other practitioners, kissed him goodbye and fled. "We talked on the phone last month for about a minute," he mumbles uncomfortably...
...agreed to from each call to decide which flights to cancel or delay. Since weather accounts for a whopping 65 per cent of all delays (and in 2000, one in four flights was delayed), a Command Center conference call can make the difference between you over-nighting on a cot in Chicago or alternatively, enjoying your summer vacation in that exclusive resort you booked months...
...victims' families would have the satisfaction of knowing that the McVeighs (isolated, no personal effects, no television, no visitors, nothing except a cot, a toilet and enough calories to survive) themselves knew, until the day of actual death: that they had vanished from the earth...
...Annick DeBaets, 32, is a volunteer from Belgium. In the two years she has spent here in Tugela Ferry, she has learned all about how hard it is to break the cycle of HIV transmission from mother to infant. The door to this 48-cot ward is literally a revolving one: sick babies come in, receive doses of rudimentary antibiotics, vitamins, food; go home for a week or a month; then come back as ill as ever. Most, she says, die in the first or second year. If she could just follow up with really intensive care, believes Dr. DeBaets...
...left between the sky and the earth anymore," said Dawod Ismail Siddhi of Pachchao, India, a town near the epicenter of the earthquake that has left an estimated 15,000 people dead and thousands more injured or homeless. "Everything has been demolished." Nearby his sister Banu knelt beside a cot bearing the corpses of her two children...