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...heard that there was the distinct odor of alcohol,” Queen said. “So we can speculate that the individuals were intoxicated...
...without inducing compassion fatigue in the tourists they hope to attract. One thing that unites Lewis and Clark enthusiasts and naysayers is the burgeoning revival of Native American traditions. For visitors, tribal culture offers a glimpse of the American past. For Indians, it is key to their survival as distinct peoples. At the Boys and Girls Club on Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota, the posters read TRADITION, NOT ADDICTION. At an Indian Health Service clinic in Mobridge, S.D., teenage methamphetamine users are introduced to the sweat lodge. The Cheyenne River Sioux run a herd of more than...
...raped, murdered and dismembered in a field near her house. Three days later, a neighbor's dog comes trotting home with her elbow in its mouth. This is horror at its darkest and most tantalizing - a stiff cocktail of David Lynch and Judy Blume, served with a distinct chill - and as first chapters go, it's a knockout. The second chapter tops it. What happens to little girls after they die? They go to heaven - and that's exactly what Susie does. In The Lovely Bones (an exquisite corpse of a title), heaven is a warm, grassy place reminiscent...
...raped, murdered and dismembered in a field near her house. Three days later, a neighbor's dog comes trotting home with her elbow in its mouth. This is horror at its darkest and most tantalizing--a stiff cocktail of David Lynch and Judy Blume, served with a distinct chill--and as first chapters go, it's a knockout. The second chapter tops...
...Green Berets (who later helped arrange their relocation to North Carolina near the American special-forces base at Fort Bragg). In Vietnam, old scores are being settled to this day. The refugees say they are being forced from their birthplaces by the Vietnamese?a people ethnically, linguistically and culturally distinct from the Montagnards. Vietnamese from the north have systematically moved onto and taken Montagnard land, and the government has repressed the highlanders' religion in an attempt to weaken and perhaps eradicate them...