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Perhaps in Pakistan. Kansi, a member of a wealthy Pakistani family, has reportedly been seen in his hometown of Quetta. "We're trying to confirm that he's there," says Fairfax County police department spokesperson Robert Wall. "Pakistani officials are cooperating in the fullest." Still, the question remains: If Kansi did commit the alleged crime, why? No explanation so far is satisfactory. Says Wall: "There are a million theories. They have to be % checked one at a time." Law-enforcement officials may have to catch the man to find the motive...
...played, or how he lived. Born in South Carolina in 1917, he began to teach himself trombone and trumpet two years after his father -- a bricklayer by trade and a weekend bandleader by calling -- had passed on; before he left his teens he was playing professionally with the Frankie Fairfax band and had got himself his nickname...
...guidelines on how to discuss homosexuality in the classroom, most of the change is taking place at the city or county level. After a 1989 federal study showed that one-third of adolescents who kill themselves are young people struggling with their sexual orientation, school officials in Virginia's Fairfax County decided to expand their wide-ranging family-life education program. "We had a moral obligation to combat a devastating trend," says Gerald Newberry, coordinator of the county's family-life education programs. "We needed to communicate to our kids that people are different, and that we don't choose...
...Fairfax ninth-graders see a video called What If I'm Gay? Originally broadcast on network TV, it concerns three teenage boys who are friends, including one who is struggling to come to terms with his homosexuality. For , homework, students are encouraged to ask their parents what they would say if one of their children had a gay friend. In the human-sexuality course he teaches in Alexandria, Virginia, Larry Gaudreault concentrates on the accumulating evidence that sexual orientation may be in some measure biologically determined rather than a freely chosen "life-style." "We try to dispel the myth that...
...Fairfax permits parents to have their children excused from classes in which homosexuality is discussed, an option that school officials say only about 1.5% of parents exercise. Wayne Steward, 17, a gay senior, is convinced that such programs work toward eliminating prejudice. "When students don't understand what differences there may be ((among people))," he says, "they can let fear cloud their judgment...