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...Fortaleza, a coastal city in Brazil's poverty-racked northeast. The school was founded in 1992 by Dora Andrade, 42, a dancer who cut short her career in the U.S. to come home and teach girls to dance their way out of the slums. Most of the children who enter EDISCA can't read or write. Many have health problems and are close to running away from violent homes or being lured into child prostitution. Andrade and a staff of 36 teach them about nutrition and health care as well as art, theater and music. But only one course...
...than one monk has been swallowed up by the treacherous waters here as he leaned out to wash his clothes. Crossing, and ascending the last curve, we surprise a group of novice monks in maroon robes pelting one another with snowballs. Embarrassed, they run off, leaving us alone to enter the courtyard, which is deserted save for the occasional herder passing through with his goats. Clouds hang low, draping the gilded rooftop. Tsurphu, an imposing red-brown block complete with a blue and gold standard fluttering from the roof, looks every bit the abandoned castle...
...Wrestling gave him the confidence to re-enter the teenage social fray. He began dating when he was 17; his first girlfriend was a sighted woman three years older than he. Erik jokes that he is not shy about using his blindness to pick up women. "They really go for the guide dog," he explains. "You go into a bar, put the guide dog out there, and the girls just come up to you." He and his friends devised a secret handshake to let Erik know if the girl he was talking to was attractive. "Just because you're blind...
...Chen Jeaw-mei, Taipei's director of social affairs, plans to pass on soon to the city council for approval include, for example, forcing funeral company operators to publish their prices ahead of time and to submit to regular evaluations. Some hospitals in major cities now require morticians to enter lotteries to determine which of them are given access to family members of critically ill patients...
...sheltered again? Or, like the Columbine massacre in the U.S. state of Colorado two years ago, will the Ikeda episode inflict Japan's schoolchildren, teachers and parents with long-term emotional scars? Until last week, Japanese schools, including the one in Ikeda, were typically open and easy to enter. During school hours, gates and doors are left unlocked. There are no security guards posted. So it was no trouble for Takuma to drive his silver sedan into the school's parking lot, pull a knife out of a box sitting on the front seat, walk around behind the school building...