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Muslims and Hindus were inheriting a divided subcontinent from Britain, made up of Pakistan and India. Already the legalistic partition had led to deadly rioting. But one important division had yet to be announced, that of Punjab, a rich province with a volatile mix of Sikhs, Muslims and Hindus. A decision had been made on Aug. 12, but Mountbatten had ordered its details unpublished until two days after India's independence. He foresaw chaos and wanted British responsibility for it to be moot by the time the screaming started over the new borders. No preparations were therefore made to control...
...when eight cops stomped into the Stonewall Inn, a dive in Manhattan's Greenwich Village district that had no liquor license but served watery drinks to a mix of drag queens, street kids, gay professionals and closeted and straight mafiosi (who ran the place). Within two hours, the Village was bleeding and burning as hundreds rioted...
...icon right out of the solar chute. We giggled and ran from chasing fans and were amazed. Suddenly we went from being a carpenter, a TV actor and a movie star's kid to looking like three of the new "Fab Four"--George Lucas being John, and you can mix and match the rest...
...which opened in February, uses more than 650 computer stations made by GE Medical Systems to store records, test data and diagnostic images. Bedside terminals are intended to make patient care swifter and more customized--and safer, with mandatory bar-code scanning to cut the chance of a drug mix-up. Of course, the "paperless office" has been touted for years and has seldom materialized. But the hospital says its goals will be met if it can boost productivity...
...soldiers don't mix with the local population, and can't even communicate - most of the soldiers speak only Turkish, and the locals just Kurdish and Arabic. "We don't like them, the Turkish government is the most brutal in the world," said one resident, Fadhil Tomar. "After the war, if they don't leave the peshmerga will come and kick them out." At that, a pickup sped up with a couple of Turkish soldiers and a Kurdish-Turkish translator. We were asked to leave...