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...stay with richer relatives in the city and for newlyweds to hire a young village girl to cook and clean for them. But with "the fabric of the extended family breaking down, things have become distorted," says Lisa Kurbiel, a child-protection officer with UNICEF. What was a custom has become an organized trade, with children being taken as far away as South Africa and the Middle East. Closer to home, they end up in such places as the labor depot in central Abidjan, which offers young girls--most of them from villages in the north of the country...
...Spector's girl groups, a huge Beatles and Brit invasion fan, an intense radio listener who absorbed everything in the AM Top 40 between 1963 and 1969. Before the Ramones he was a glam-rocker, another New York Dolls fan. He would hitch rides on Queens Boulevard in a custom pink jumpsuit and thigh-high boots to play with a band called Sniper, finally getting his ass kicked one night like everyone who knew him was afraid would happen. Even after becoming a Ramone he always wore '60s-style elliptical specs, hiding what I always imagined to be pink mouse...
...Jesus' day executions and burials took place outside the city. Today the church is tucked within the Old City's Christian Quarter, but at the time, the area would have been safely outside town walls. The niche-style grave is consistent with 1st century custom. Written attestations to its authenticity--and that of the Calvary rock a few yards away--date back more than 1,800 years. Tellingly, early rulers who might have been tempted to "adjust" the site's location did not do so. Says Dan Bahat, for many years Jerusalem's district archaeologist: "There's nothing to prove...
Even the most custom-crafted arrangements don't last forever. Parents remarry. New spouses bring in stepchildren. Kids grow up and move away. But by the time change is necessary, families accustomed to thinking imaginatively are often able to create a new design for living that suits their new family situation...
...remember the mingled smells of hot dogs, popcorn and beer that haunted the cool corridors, the big guys hawking programs. I remember the sense of excitement I felt as we made our way to our seats (always located in the family section, a custom that left me ill-prepared for the drunkenness and profanity I later encountered in the bleachers at big-city ballparks). I remember the July sun beating down, and the cheers of fans, happy to be watching their Pirates play ball...