Word: escapees
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Nair proved to be an unusually precocious child?top of her class and a leader to her elder brothers. Then came her first experience of theater, in festival dramatizations of mythic Hindu tales. The performances "possessed my mind," she recalls, and also provided a means of escape, allowing her to...
Nepal's woes are tragically intertwined. For generations, Nepalis have traveled abroad to escape poverty. But the stream has become a torrent thanks to the bloody insurgency, which has claimed 10,000 victims in the countryside since 1996. Some 15,000 Nepalese are working in Iraq, several hundred thousand more...
WEASEL WARS Boots set a course record at last week's Ferret Olympics in Springfield, Ore., by finishing the Tube Race in 6.15 sec. Sparky took home the gold in the paper-bag-escape event. Tank weighed in as heaviest ferret
DIED. ELMER BERNSTEIN, 82, composer who created both jazzy and gentle scores for more than 200 Hollywood films over 50 years; in Ojai, Calif. He composed the muscular jazz scores for such '50s films as The Man with the Golden Arm and Sweet Smell of Success; worked in a more...
Hurricane Charley ripped, helter-skelter, through Florida and up the East Coast last week, leaving bitter lessons in its path. First, there was the reminder that hurricanes are devilishly hard to predict. Last year, meteorologists at Miami's National Hurricane Center demonstrated remarkable accuracy with their storm-landing forecasts. But...