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...Doeum, 45, a villager whose right hand was blown off several years ago when he tried to pick up a mine, smiles at the Halo de-miners. Five villagers have stepped on mines in the past three years. "We have to go into the forest to get bamboo shoots and wood," he says. "Everyone is scared of mines, but if we don't go, the pot is empty. So it is good that they come here to take away mines. Next we want them to clear a way to the water." He points with the stump...
BIRTH REVEALED. Of GENE, the first bull calf cloned from fetal stem cells; by ABS Global Inc.; in De Forest...
...hiring of blacklisted actors, scoured the theater scene for talent. He enticed stars, from Jose Ferrer (Coe put Cyrano de Bergerac on TV between its Broadway run and the Kramer film adaptation) to Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall and Henry Fonda (for a Producer's Showcase staging of The Petrified Forest) to Frank Sinatra (who, in the musical version of Our Town, sang Love and Marriage). Coe's 1955 airing of the Mary Martin Peter Pan was the highest-rated show in the young medium's history...
...leaves of some edible exotic plant. And the pictures! They are familiar to him from the thousands of commercials he saw during the N.B.A. finals. The Jeep Cherokee roars up the perilous incline of a desert mountain. Fearlessly the Land Rover grinds its way deep into a rain forest. A Dodge Durango perches at the very lip of the Grand Canyon, staring down upon a world of wusses. These sport-utility vehicles are rugged, invincible, built for the strenuous life...come to think of it, a lot like Husband himself...
...Labor Secretary, Robert Reich couldn't get a buzz going if he'd crossed a picket line. Now he's the talk of the town for his bestselling memoir, Locked in the Cabinet. But the talk has turned decidedly sour since one reviewer, Jonathan Rauch, saw through the forest of short-guy jokes to find a book that was too good to be true. Writing in Slate magazine, Rauch found that Reich had cooked the raw material of Washington life into an unrecognizable stew of half-truths in which he comes off as morally superior...