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...murder in the South China Sea, the mangled corpses bumping against each other in the Mekong River. But no matter how hard she scrubbed, my mother could never erase her most startling memories: the shortage of medicine that stripped her 6 year-old son of his mental faculties, the fever that cut off a large part of his nervous system, the brain swelling that left him unable to walk, to talk, or to understand what had happened...
United we stand: That is the mantra, the logo, the declaration of codependency for the new Fortress America. How, then, must someone feel who stands apart, in opposition to the nation's righteous war fever? Ask Catherine Herdlick, a graduate student at Parsons School of Design, who helped carry a banner reading PEACE NOT WAR last Thursday in Manhattan's Union Square. Ask the 500 or so demonstrators who convened there a day later before marching north to Times Square. They are the first peaceniks of the 21st century...
...Experts in antiterrorism share their concern. At the turn of the past century, says Brian Jenkins of the Rand Corp., epidemics of diseases like yellow fever and cholera kept health workers on their toes. Now, after a decade of cutbacks, "our ability to treat large numbers of casualties has been reduced," he says. "The notion of reinvesting to create a muscular public health system is not a bad idea, even if there is no terrorism...
...better, and it has been getting it. The acclaim began in 1992 when Sedaris read aloud on NPR from The SantaLand Diaries, a prickly extended sketch about working at Macy's as a Christmas elf. A book contract for a collection of essays followed. In Holidays on Ice, Barrel Fever and Naked, Sedaris found a persona and a groove as a chain-smoking, movie-obsessed, gay misfit who got dark laughs from his mother's bout with cancer, from a painful sojourn at a nudist colony and from his fumbled sexual awakening at summer camp. "What are you," screams...
...height of the dot-com fever, many in the business world felt that a lack of an MBA degree was not necessarily an impediment to entrepreneurial success. But now that the fantasy is over, business and law schools seem to be more attractive to those looking for a stable paycheck...