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...members of the Northeast Kingdom Community Church in tiny Island Pond, Vt. (est. pop. 1,200), corporal punishment of children is part of their Fundamentalist creed. But to their neighbors, it looked like child abuse. There were reports from former church members that babies less than six months old were hit with wooden rods. One 13-year-old girl was said to have been beaten for eight hours, until her body was covered with welts, as punishment for telling a lie. Said Linda Schneider, a former church member: "A child would cry, and they would beat him with...
...Everyone eats from the same dish, though there is little but hard gristle and bone. "We have no ranks," says Abdul Osman, 21. "We are all combatants, we are all volunteers." His job is to teach reading and writing to the troops. After supper he conducts a lesson: "Maman est tres belle .. . Maman a une belle robe . .. Bonjour, maman." Since there are 300 different languages in Chad, French is the lingua franca...
Genentech (est. 1983 revenues: $45 million), one of the industry founders, remains the model for other gene-splicing firms. Started in 1976, the South San Francisco firm now employs 110 Ph.D.s. This year the company hopes to put on the market a human growth hormone that is said to enable abnormally small children to develop as large as normal ones. It also s expects to have two breakthrough products in human evaluation tests...
Glenn charged ahead: "Let me finish. I'm disgusted and tired of all the vague promises." Now Mondale got worked up. "Point of personal privilege!" he shouted. But Glenn would not yield: he blamed the Carter Administration for its "21% inter est rates" and declared, "That's why we lost the White House." Shot back Mondale: "There's just been about a six-minute speech, all of it baloney...
...great last words traditionally included in anthologies have usually been more serious than that, and often sound suspiciously perfect. Le style, c'est I'homme. General Robert E. Lee is said to have gone in 1870 with just the right military-metaphysical command: "Strike the tent!" The great 18th century classicist and prig Nicolas Boileau managed a sentence of wonderfully plump self-congratulation: "It is a consolation to a poet on the point of death that he has never written a line injurious to good morals...