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...that grow like thick vines around his chosen trees. For him trees are best classified by personality type: gods and goddesses, grizzlies, dwarfs, aliens and ghosts. Some are already famous, such as California's brutish General Sherman sequoia, the largest living thing, or the 2,200-year-old Sri Lankan bo tree that was reputedly grown from a cutting of the tree under which Buddha found enlightenment. Others are less well known: the Montezuma cypress in Tule, Mexico, 140 ft. high and 190 ft. in girth, which "wraps itself around you with its huge, bare brown arms"; the troll-like...
...celebrating her birthday, secure in the love of her Madras parents, a writer and a TV news reader. They have chosen this day to give the girl startling news: she is adopted, and the identity of her birth mother has been lost in the carnage of the Sri Lankan...
...Rashud's bold announcement has the desired effect. Instead of lynching him, the baying throng of Sri Lankan fans breaks into laughter. They unfurl a giant pink brassiere: on one cup, it bears the legend "Bust the Pakistanis"; on the other, there's a picture of a Pakistani missile with a red line through it. To the delight of the Sri Lankan supporters, even Pakistan's nuclear arsenal can't save Rashud's team from defeat on this steamy evening in Colombo...
...expected bid for a third five-year term. Danga Mughogo, a regional chairman of the Forum for Unity and Development, had allegedly called on people to rise up against renewed efforts to change the constitution. SRI LANKA Tigers Stop Roaring After three days of talks with the Sri Lankan government in Thailand, the Tamil Tigers guerrilla group announced that it will seek a separate state in northeast Sri Lanka only as a "last resort." "Our demand for a homeland is not a demand for a separate state," said Anton Balasingham, the Tigers' chief negotiator. The talks, the first direct negotiations...
...according to the U.N. $107 billion is the size of WorldCom's assets stated in its bankruptcy filing, marking the biggest corporate bust in U.S. history-the amount is almost double that of bankrupt Enron's 48 bullet-proof security cars were purchased in 2000 and 2001 by Sri Lankan president Chandrika Kumaratunga costing $25 million 90 young Kabul boys were circumcised by Turkish army doctors on July 23rd as a goodwill gesture towards local Muslim families unable to finance the religious procedure 9 is the number of fetuses a Sudanese woman is pregnant with after undergoing lengthy infertility treatment...