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Three decades ago, I was one of the Jessy-friends. She was 11 when I first met her at her parents' home in Williamstown, Mass. Hunched over a cardboard carton filled with tiny squares of paper, she would grab handfuls of paper bits and let them sift down through her fingers--a repetitive activity that could absorb her for half an hour at a stretch...
...circumstances, the right to terminate unwanted pregnancies. Abortion is currently a crime, punishable by up to 10 years in jail: some 80 women are behind bars. Most of them probably just had miscarriages, says Uprety. They were turned in by neighbors or relatives to settle a grudge or to grab property. For lawyer and women's rights activist Sapna Pradhan Malla, however, the struggle is not just about abortion or property rights. "It's a fight to get men to recognize that they are not superior, that women have the same human rights as they...
...younger members of the party recognize this is a crisis," says Shiozaki, a member of the lower house of parliament. "I think some of the old ones even understand that now." Shiozaki and a gang of younger Liberal Democratic pols are attempting a coup, trying to grab control of the party. This kind of thing is breaking out all over, even at MITI. After 17 years at the ministry, Yoshiaki Murakami, 41, quit in 1999 to start an investment fund. His plan: to shake up boardrooms by challenging the cross-shareholding system that protects troubled banks and companies. He attempted...
...hair-raising string of crises in the late 1990s--culminating in a collision with an unmanned cargo ship in 1997--but there were other, less publicized near misses. Cosmonaut Alexander Serebrov almost became a satellite himself when his safety tether came loose during a spacewalk. Luckily, he managed to grab hold of the station. In 1994, Mir lost its orientation, causing most of its onboard systems to sputter out, including the fans that keep oxygen circulating. To stay alive, the cosmonauts had to wave their hands in front of their faces to gather in breathable air and flap away carbon...
...Unconquered." Gary Cooper doing the old over-the-falls-in-a-canoe-but-grab-the-branch-halfway-down routine. Fresh as a daisy...