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...Lu, 17, of South Pasadena, Calif., came to the SSP to see how she would handle being 3,000 miles away from home for an extended period of time. While she says she isn’t a fan of the East Coast’s muggy and unpredictable weather, she has found the independence of her new lifestyle appealing...
...death or executed by their captors. But later, when the locals retrieved her parents' bodies from the forest, she was old enough to realize they were dead, and that Burmese soldiers had killed them. Nang Nang is 6 now. "She's still heartbroken," says her teacher, Hku Hseng Lu. "She cries a lot. Sometimes she gets angry and talks about revenge. I tell her stories to help her forget...
...than 60 Shan families living nearby to move back into Burma?and closer to the scene of the fighting in April between the S.S.A. and the Burmese junta's ally, the 16,000-strong United Wa State Army (U.W.S.A.). "The Burmese army forced us to relocate," says Hku Hseng Lu, 21, who also helps run the orphanage. "Now the Thai army is doing the same. Where are we supposed...
...Some of the children watched Burmese soldiers kill their parents," says Hku Hseng Lu, a fragile beauty with an indomitable air on which her young charges depend. Others died as porters, like Nang Nang's parents, or simply perished from disease. Medical treatment is either primitive or nonexistent in Shan state, which is also hardest-hit by the country's unchecked AIDS epidemic. Chris Beyrer, a leading AIDS expert at Johns Hopkins University, estimates that a staggering 9% of Shan men are HIV positive. "This is among the highest rates reported in Asia," he notes...
...Louis Cardinals had feet of porcelain. How unfair to criticize the entire team for the antics of one player, Joaquin Andujar. The Cardinals are a great group of athletes who conducted themselves with class and gave us a full summer of baseball fun. Lu Stephens St. Louis...