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...empty coffin, waiting like carrion. One by one, neighbors explain, the family that lived there died. First the daughter, 18, went to the Kikwit 2 maternity hospital in late March for a caesarean section. When she got home her incision began to bleed. Then her organs began to melt. The red-black sludge wiggled out of her eyes, her nose, her mouth. Soon her parents got sick. Her father, some villagers believe, died of horror: he told his wife that if she died, he would die too on the next Friday. And he did, followed by another daughter, then...
...phenomenon called summer melt," Lewis said. "A few students who are planning to attend at this point will decide to defer. You can never tell for sure, so you always need a couple of extra students...
...stand at Cu Chi was a model of lionheartedness compared with what the NVA columns entering Saigon proper found on April 30. The South Vietnamese soldiers confronting them did not just flee; they threw away everything that could identify them as soldiers and tried to melt into the general population. Bui Tin, an NVA colonel and journalist, says he spent that last morning "with one of our units taking a fortress that had been held by a South Vietnamese division. All the South Vietnamese soldiers who had fled had abandoned their uniforms. Everywhere you looked on the road, they...
...symbolic. The alleged causes of populist anger will not disappear: the budget will remain unbalanced; lifetime professional politicians will continue to run the country. But, like a summer squall, the populist storm will pass. Or rather, like a small child's crying fit, the nation's populist frenzy will melt away with time and distraction...
...lines wiggle through the material in the presence of an electric current, the dissipated heat can cause the source of the magnetic field to melt if it is not cooled. But cooling is currently a financially inefficient solution...