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...Packing cases are fashioned into furniture. Oil drums are made into roofing sheets, frying pans, barbecues, stoves, knives and lamps. Cars that cannot be repaired are salvaged piecemeal and turned into donkey carts. Much of this unofficial labor is carried out in the open air and is called jua kali -- "hot sun." As multinational companies are driven away by government policies and demands for kickbacks, as state enterprises fail and lay off workers, the jua kali economy is booming...
Frightening anecdotes abound. Kali Korn, 41, of Los Angeles came down with scleroderma last year, a decade after she had silicone implants inserted for cosmetic reasons. The skin has so constricted around her fingers that she is virtually unable to move them. Doctors removed the implants in March, and she now says, "I feel much better. I wish I had realized 10 years ago that how I looked was fine...
Rachel McDermott, a Ph.D candidate in Religion, will depart on October 1 for Calcutta, India, in the hope of improving Western scholarship on the Bengali goddess, Kali. McDermott said that her investigation will consist of studying the Bengali poetic tradition, especially during the 19th-century, devoted to this deity...
...There's a lot of devotional poetry to her that is not published and not known in the West," McDermott said. She said she hoped to observe "how this poetry is used in temples and [in] informal gatherings" of Calcutta followers of Kali...
...Poiner, Brown, 27.80; 3. McCluskey, B.U., 27.82, 200-yd breaststroke--1 Torney, Brown, 2:25.79; 2. Fifth, Pittsburgh, 2:26.49; 3. Woolfolk, Brown, 2:27.33. 50-yd. butterfly-1. Jackson, Pittsburgh, 25.38; 2. Vietz, Yale, 27.72; 3 Lind, Princeton, 25.84. 100-yd. individual medley-1. Ujevich, Pittsburgh, 59.27; 2 Kali Princeton, 1.00:83. 3. Poirier, Brown. 1:01. 05 Three-meter diving-1. Clark. Penn State. 474 00; 2. Goldberg, Harvard, 452 40; 3. Moses, Princeton. 421.20 400-yd. freestyle relay-1. Pittsburgh 2. B.U.; 3 Princeton...