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...more telling signal to watch for: "If his close relatives cut short trips, that's a clear sign that Deng has indeed died." It's unlikely that the government would keep Deng's death a secret, Waller says. While the government guards Deng's medical condition closely, Chinese custom is to announce deaths quickly. Waller adds that Deng, who has not been seen in public since 1994, has long since transferred power to other leaders and divested himself of all formal titles. U.S. officials hope that Secretary of State Madeleine Albright will get a better fix on the situation when...
...more telling signal to watch for: "If his close relatives cut short trips, that's a clear sign that Deng has indeed died." It's unlikely that the government would keep Deng's death a secret, Waller says. While the government guards Deng's medical condition closely, Chinese custom is to announce deaths quickly. Waller adds that Deng, who has not been seen in public since 1994, has long since transferred power to other leaders and divested himself of all formal titles. U.S. officials hope that Secretary of State Madeleine Albright will get a better fix on the situation when...
Minnesota in the winter of 1949 is a world where everyone knows his place, and that place is often church, where proprieties are observed and secrets have a charge. Richard and Sarah MacEwan are a sweet-natured, guilt-edged couple held together by custom, affection and a devotion as much to the settled lives they've created over 30 years as to each other. But when his younger brother dies, Richard finds among his unmarried sibling's papers an intimate letter from Sarah and is suddenly propelled beyond the limit of what he knows and what he wants to know...
Marty's son Miles, 9, was born with congenital birth defects. Throughout his 34 surgeries, he felt the need to identify with a friend like himself. So he and his mom created "buddies," custom-made dolls whose features match the disease or disability of the patient: the oncology doll has tubes; the orthopedic doll has leg braces. About 13,000 buddies have been distributed by hospitals and corporations...
...stunning sound and vision, along with the various bells and whistles that digital storage's interactive ease and sheer data acreage allow, including PG- and R-rated versions of a given movie on one disc, multiple languages, no rewinding, movie-and-game pairings, instant searches and every custom setup and picture adjustment that early adopting cinephiles could possibly get all hot and bothered over...