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Instead of looking forward to a school camp, for example, they fret about what might go wrong, like being served food they don't like or having to shower in front of others. While these scenarios might cross the minds of most kids, anxious ones would rather skip the camp than risk embarrassment. Some extremely anxious children worry incessantly about things beyond their control, such as earthquakes, nuclear war and sars, inflating in their minds the danger to themselves and their families. Worse, sufferers feel compelled to conceal their fears from everyone and often grow into depressed teens. "Anxious children...
...Shan have an uneasy relationship with their ethnic cousins, the Thais. (Siam, the old name for Thailand, is a corruption of "Shan.") Unlike other ethnic groups fleeing persecution in Burma, the Shan who cross into Thailand are not granted refugee status, and easily fall prey to disease and human traffickers. To appease Burma's generals?who would like nothing more than a rebel-free Shan state?Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra ordered his army to expel the S.S.A. from the group's headquarters, which straddles the border. But that hasn't happened yet and, despite public pronouncements to the contrary...
Both Altman and Crimson senior Bev Moore made their Ivy League debuts last year, from Holy Cross and Louisiana Tech, respectively, and proved how valuable transfer athletes can be. There are disadvantages, however, to bringing in transfers...
Altman was originally recruited by Harvard, but chose instead to attend Holy Cross. When she resolved to transfer, Delaney-Smith tried to get her into a Crimson uniform, but the admissions office decided otherwise...
...Ball Rolls LITHUANIA Parliament formally launched impeachment proceedings against President Rolandas Paksas, following a report into accusations by the security services that his alleged links with criminal groups make him a threat to national security. Checking in on Saddam IRAQ A delegation from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) visited ousted leader Saddam Hussein in U.S. custody for the first time since his capture in December 2003. An ICRC spokeswoman said that two of the organization's officials checked on Saddam's health condition. Nuclear Prowess LIBYA The International Atomic Energy Agency said that Libya had clandestinely acquired...