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...Rebuilding won't begin until heavy machinery can be brought in to clear tons of rubble; that might take weeks. In the meantime, the authorities are pledging grants of 30 million rupiah (about $3,200) to owners of badly damaged homes so they can quickly get back on their feet, without waiting months for a grand?and cumbersome?reconstruction plan of the sort devised for Aceh after the 2004 tsunami. In some areas life is already returning to normal. Malioboro, Yogyakarta's main tourist drag, is open for business again. "Visitors are slowly returning, but they are mostly local," says...
...loved and the crooning she hated. In country music, she saw the same mastery of conceit—the unification of dissimilar ideas in an extended metaphor—that attracted her to the English Renaissance poet John Donne. Just as Donne created an elaborate metaphor likening the two feet of a compass to distant lovers, a country music songwriter compared a love affair to a trial and execution. She would later become the only black woman to write a number one country song, and she would be nominated for a Grammy Award. She examined lynching...
...traveled, he made a strange discovery: he felt better. Soon he realized he wouldn't, maybe couldn't, stop traveling. He never got his sight back, but when he was on the move he felt different--healthy, dignified, whole. "I see things better with my feet," he said, with characteristic good humor...
...Webb is standing at parade rest, feet apart at shoulder width, chin out, quiet blue eyes scanning his target of opportunity-the assembled Democrats of Montgomery County, Virginia-and waiting for local party chieftain Steve Cochran to ask him something. "Well, looking through this," Cochran says, riffling through a series of questions written on three-by-five cards, "there's one dominant theme. People want to know why you became a Democrat after all those years as a Republican, and why you endorsed George Allen for the U.S. Senate over Chuck Robb in 2000, and why you want...
...volcano 25 km from the ancient Indonesian city. Scientists warned that Merapi was ready to erupt, and thousands of villagers living on its slopes were evacuated as a precaution. So far Merapi hasn't blown. Instead, Yogyakartans discovered on Saturday that the real danger was the ground beneath their feet...