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...grows cold, they cry for their mothers. "You hold them and they don't want to let you go," says Julienne Mukeba, 24, a law student from Kinshasa who is volunteering at the camp. They arrive by the hundreds, some orphaned, some wrenched from their parents during the crush at the border crossing, some abandoned by the starving. Many are too young to tell their stories; the staff make up names. And many don't last long. "Our morgue is filled with babies," said Dr. Nimet Lalani. "We've lost them...
Listening to Don Flow, 39, who owns nine import, Saturn and GM dealerships, mainly in the Southeast, raises the same question. "The old game," he says, "was let the buyers beware, crush 'em if you can, make as much as you could off everybody. Better to make a kill now than a friend for life. We basically also made our customers turn into s.o.b.s. If a really nice person walked in, they were a lay-down in front of us. The industry had a lot of fun with those techniques...
...Middle East didn't know what to think. No doubt, the PLO would have split up into several inimical factions upon the death of their charismatic, savvy and long-serving leader. One might think that the Israelis, taking advantage of disorder and divisiveness, would then have been able to crush the long-standing Palestinian menace once...
While most dying stars evolve into planetsized white dwarfs stars with masses greater than three times that of the sun explode as supernovae and then crush themselves under their own gravity to become black holes...
...days. As Bosnia lay relatively quiet, Washington took pride in its muscle flexing. "Every time we have been firm," said Clinton, "it has been a winner for the peace process." The Bosnian Serbs, who denounced the strikes as an intervention in support of the Muslims they are trying to crush, broke off contact with the U.N., charging that it had chosen sides...