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When a ritzy Manhattan apartment building removed the nest of a red-tailed hawk, Pale Male, and his mate from a window cornice, angry protests ensued. Leading the charge: Mary Tyler Moore, the building's most famous resident. After much squawking, a compromise was reached. The hawks wil be allowed to rebuild. No mortgage necessary...
...Yong, 54, was one of roughly 15,000 prisoners at Kaechon in the late 1990s, and he is one of the lucky ones. Kim told veteran American human-rights activist David Hawk that he escaped in 1999 by hiding in a coal train that delivered the miners' daily take to a nearby town. He eventually made his way across the border to China, and then to Seoul, where, along with other refugees from the camps, he has been able to tell his story. Constant hunger is a way of life for the prisoners-malnutrition and disease were rampant, well before...
...Gulag of the 21st century; in the past year, thanks mainly to the testimony of a number of former prisoners who have escaped to South Korea, the outside world has come to know much more about the grim conditions inside. In particular, a report authored last year by Hawk for the U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea meticulously pulled together detailed information-gathered mainly from extensive interviews with more than 30 former inmates-about the horrors in the camps. Hawk, who ran the U.N.'s human-rights office in Cambodia in the 1990s, had helped document the killing...
...pile up. Among the most troubling claims to emerge from former detainees is infanticide: according to several former prisoners, women who have become pregnant while in China are not uncommonly required to give birth while still in detention and then forced to watch as their own babies are killed. Hawk's report contains eight eyewitness accounts-including one of a child suffocated with a wet towel in front of its mother's eyes-and separately, TIME interviewed two women, who did not want to be identified, who claim to have seen either forced abortions or the murder of newborns...
...feverish affair of Hollywood and Madison Avenue is hotter than ever as Tinseltown produces a crop of mini-movies--with stars and special effects--to help hawk goods...