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...small community of Simuay Crossing on the Philippines' southern island of Mindanao, Mohammad Sabri Selamah fit in just fine. He spoke three local dialects, had lived in Mindanao for almost a decade and was raising four kids with his Philippine Muslim wife. Selamah, a Palestinian carrying Iraqi travel documents, worked as the head teacher at a Koranic recitation center attached to a local orphanage. Datu Tucao Mastura, mayor of the nearby municipality of Sultaan Kudarat, says, "There was never any suggestion he was doing anything except his work at the school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rumbles in the Jungle | 3/4/2002 | See Source »

...abounding in gentle humor, warm bonhomie and appealing charm. No small triumph for a tale set in that unhappy era not too long ago when "every nook and cranny of the land came under the all-seeing eye of the dictatorship of the proletariat, which had cast its gigantic fine-meshed net over the whole of China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Twist on Balzac | 3/4/2002 | See Source »

...neither limiting nor lacking in rigor. Properly navigated, it can provide all of us with a variety of challenging and interesting options in fields we would never study if we weren’t required. Yes, there is always room for improvement, but the Core right now is just fine...

Author: By Z. SAMUEL Podolsky, | Title: Hard Core | 3/4/2002 | See Source »

...most children, a hug is all it takes to treat the bruise from a playground fall. But when Dalton Dawes collided with a classmate on his first day of preschool three years ago, the bleeding inside his shoulder would not stop. Dalton, an 8-year-old with fine blond hair and intelligent blue eyes who lives in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains, is a hemophiliac. What prevents the mishaps of childhood from killing him is $2,000-a-week injections of a medication called Mononine. But no private insurer will cover Dalton, so his parents, Leonard Poe and Heather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health Care Has a Relapse | 3/2/2002 | See Source »

Ever hear the maxim that you can’t squeeze blood from a turnip? Some people are emotional turnips: fine for a hook-up, but nothing more to give beyond that. Don’t squeeze them...

Author: By Ben Berger, | Title: The Doctor Is In | 2/28/2002 | See Source »

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