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With Cusworth’s four-game hiatus, senior Graham Beatty jumped from the bench to the starting lineup, as he did in Cusworth’s absence all of last season. Beatty responded well scoring a career-high 12 points against Long Island, and pulling down 6.25 boards a contest over that four game span...
...dikes where handsome villas are rising for the new, well-to-do middle classes ... France's Le Corbusier will build a sports stadium, and 88-year-old Frank Lloyd Wright returned enthusiastically from Baghdad last week ready to create an opera house "like nothing in the world" on an island in the Tigris ... Says a senior U.S. diplomat: "We feel Iraq is potentially if not right now the brightest spot in the area. There's hope here to build something solid." --TIME, June...
...named. The indigenous people who inhabited this northwestern swath of Tasmania for some 10,000 years were wiped out by conflict and disease in the wake of 19th century colonial settlement. Today, their former home?rich in ancient groves and pristine water courses?may be under threat from the island's logging industry, which intends to process the trees into wood chips and pulp. Granted, the Tarkine, spanning 450,000 hectares, is not going to disappear overnight and felling is now mostly taking place on the forest's periphery. But large sections of the Tarkine's heart...
...come to light sooner. Parmalat never publicly explained why it needed to continue borrowing money when its accounts claimed it was sitting on billions of dollars in cash. Nobody appears to have asked whether Cubans really needed $1.3 billion worth of milk powder--enough to supply everyone on the island with 60 gallons a year--and why the powder was being shipped from Singapore, of all places. And nobody challenged a key discrepancy: the amount of debt disclosed on the firm's balance sheet was at odds, by as much as $2.6 billion, with the corporate data on file...
...might be imagined, these unions weren't love stories in any traditional sense. In Jenkins' case, the government in 1980 brought a young Japanese nurse to his door, instructing him to teach her English. Hitomi Soga, 19 years Jenkins' junior, had been abducted from her home on Sado Island in Japan two years earlier. Jenkins says they quickly fell in love, and that his feelings for Soga saved his life. "When I met her," Jenkins says, "my life changed a lot. Me and her together--I knew we could make it in North Korea. And we did. Twenty-two years...