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...most part, my face was in the dirt, and I was just praying they wouldn't see me or hear me," he recalled. At times, his Serb pursuers approached, beating the ground with their rifles in an effort to flush him out. On one occasion, he lay motionless as a cow browsed on blades of grass between his legs. Eventually he nicknamed two cows that were especially fond of his hiding spot "Leroy" and "Alfred"; the old man who herded them he called "Tinkerbell" because of the cowbell he carried. At another point, O'Grady was awakened by the roar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RESCUING SCOTT O'GRADY: ALL FOR ONE | 6/19/1995 | See Source »

...good number of them had to be repeatedly reminded to flush the toilet and wash their hands after using the restroom. Some hadn't been taught how to tie their shoes and had to ask classmates to help them keep their laces knotted. And one boy had a terrible cold but didn't know how to blow his nose. He sat miserably for a while until the teacher took him outside and taught...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: School Begins At Home | 4/14/1995 | See Source »

Leaving a land where toilets flush out beer, we boarded our shuttle to Cozumel, a charming island off the coast of Cancun. As Mexico's largest Caribbean island, Cozumel has retained much of its natural beauty. Even the mobs of cruise-ship tourists who whirl through the town for a day cannot spoil the islands' natural topic beauty...

Author: By Nan Zheng, | Title: From Drab Cambridge To Lovely Cancun | 3/7/1995 | See Source »

...Dartboard have to say that it probably won't make a whip (or was that a majority leader?) of difference. Even as Republicans storm about Washington, D.C., flush with new-found power, Republicans at Harvard do just about nothing. You might not agree with other right-wing organizations such as the Salient and the Alliance for Life, but you have to give them credit for at least putting out a paper or putting up a poster every now and then...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DARTBOARD | 2/11/1995 | See Source »

Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo this morning sent thousands of troops to southern Mexico's Chiapas state to flush out the Zapatista resistance. Unconfirmed reports gauged the force at 40,000 soldiers, a much larger military action than the government has so far been willing to undertake. Thursday, Zedillo reversed Mexico's policy of trying to make peace with the Zapatista National Liberation Army by promising to help the poor. Instead, he ordered the arrest of top guerrilla leaders after accusing them of "preparing new and great acts of violence, not only in Chiapas but in other parts of the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO . . . ZEDILLO HUNTS DOWN REBELS | 2/10/1995 | See Source »

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