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...nine years. Although many first-year graduates have passed this way on an adventure, several experienced teachers have made long-term commitments to the school of 60 students. The word is that Boyle's longevity, persistence and calm temperament-together with the leadership of board chairman Norman Cox-explain much of the school's success. Boyle, who witnessed a long, slow decline, senses that things may have turned around for indigenous people. "Local knowledge is so important," he says. "If you can get the right people on the ground to work with elders and the community's board...
...Pennsylvania-size country in southeast Africa that has four things in abundance that the West doesn't much covet: AIDS, malaria, drought and tobacco (its major crop, now not so lucrative). On the plus side, it has a functioning democracy and no full-blown war. That may explain why, to date, Malawi has not attracted much attention from the rest of the world. But that's about to change. Malawi will soon be hit by a force that has thrown far more robust countries into chaos. Her name is Madonna...
James and his colleagues were always unmasking frauds, but a few clairvoyants performed feats they could not explain away. The most unnerving was Leonora Piper, a Massachusetts housewife who seemed sincerely perplexed by her powers as a medium and showed no interest in exploiting them. Time and again, while in an indisputable trance state, she told visitors details of their lives that seemed impossible for anyone but their dear departed to know...
...paused the movie and began in my best doctor-mom way to explain that scarlet fever occurs when you have strep throat and the strep germs in your throat migrate to your skin. The girls were even more frightened. Each of them had had strep throat - could they have almost died? I reassured them that Beth March had nearly died because doctors in the 19th century, unlike today, didn't have medicine for strep throat and scarlet fever. They calmed down and we were able to return to the movie...
...failure of its economy forces Cuba to reinvent itself, Fidel Castro has stayed largely in the background, leaving it to other officials to explain and defend the changes sweeping his country. But two weeks ago, he invited a delegation from TIME to dinner for a rare three-hour conversation that gave him an opportunity to define the compromises he is making: to expound, argue, and marshal the evidence in support of a reform process some Cubans fear is changing Cuba too much and others charge is not changing the country nearly enough...