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Restaveks who do get away have grim stories to tell. A young man recently went to Romer with hideous burns from an iron, a punishment by his West Palm Beach, Fla., "host" family whenever he didn't press their clothes correctly. Aside from losing their childhood, restaveks suffer separation from their own families. At the Maurice Sixto shelter in Port-au-Prince, Ania Derice, 18, recalls how her parents in rural central Haiti, who couldn't afford to feed and clothe her, sent her to a house in Port-au-Prince to be a restavek. When Ania was 12--after...
...simple. At times like these distance, and not direction, is my downfall. I find it nearly impossible to walk purposely past telescoping rows of books, leaving them all untouched, unread, unopened. (Glimpses of Portuguese periodicals, Byzantine manuscripts, journals of learned societies and "Iron Maze: Western Intelligence v. the Bolsheviks...
Adults often exhibit a much wider range of symptoms. They may or may not have diarrhea. Frequently they become anemic, because their intestine can't absorb much iron. Complicating the diagnosis is the fact that many symptoms of celiac disease are seen in other illnesses, such as Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, diverticulosis or intestinal infections...
...problem is that for record companies, the iron may have to get a whole lot hotter before they start to scream for mercy. They're still winning on the law, and while they must know about the alternatives - and the coming industry sea change - they're still not in any hurry to face the future while they've got the lawyers...
...week after a U.S. appeals court affirmed in principle a circuit judge's order that Napster dismantle its "vicarious copyright infringement" business model - accompanied by a mad rush of users to its site - Napster figures to strike a deal while the iron is hot. And before its aghast users find someplace else...