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Despite government efforts to seal off the remote villages, a few local tribespeople insisted on returning at midweek to the lands farmed by their ancestors. Their homecoming could not have been a happy one. As the Rev. Fred Tern Horn, a Dutch priest who serves in the area, described the scene, "it was as though a neutron bomb had exploded." All of the huts and buildings remained intact, and the mountains and tropical forests appeared unscathed. But almost no life stirred for miles around...
...James F. Conlan Jr. was a localmusician of enough repute for the Harvard Band toask him to join it during the 300th birthdaycelebration. Fifty years later, still a musicianof repute, though now living in the the Lone StarState, Conlan will once again toot his horn whileHarvard toots...
...arbitrary sampling rate of a CD results in an incomplete snapshot of any given moment of sound. "The woodwinds all sound alike," claims Pearson. "You can't tell the difference between one string or the other, and you can't tell if what you're hearing is a horn or a trumpet. Digital audio is like McDonald's hamburgers. It's all alike...
...hands. Associates say that from the moment Mengistu became chief of state nine years ago, the Chairman, as he is known, has been a nationalist first and a Marxist second. Now Mengistu is reaching the zenith of his influence at home and abroad. "Ethiopia is the key to the Horn of Africa," says a Western expert, "and Mengistu is the keeper...
...Angeles, which has been called the homeless capital of the U.S., a third of some 50,000 homeless are believed to be mentally ill, and fear of violence from the deinstitutionalized is common. But the director of the local mental-health association, Richard Van Horn, says "deinstitutionalization itself is not at fault. Adequate treatment dollars did not follow the population into the community." While the Federal Government initially planned to establish 2,000 community mental-health centers for released patients, no more than 800 were ever opened. Dwindling federal revenues have left communities without the means to treat the homeless...