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That is about the easiest thing to imagine in the lives of the eight cloistered sisters of the Carmelite Monastery at Goonellabah, near Lismore, in northern New South Wales, who can be seen only through a grilled window in the reception area. It's into this modest room, watched over by old black-and-white photographs of St. Teresa of the Andes, that Sisters Bernadette, Veronica, Antoinette and Maria come in turn, each shedding a little more light on an existence which Sister Veronica herself can imagine outsiders wondering about: "I've been passing the monastery for five years. What...
...Ruili, where heavy heroin trafficking and a thriving sex trade create a perfect HIV breeding ground, to Beijing, for his meetings with party leaders, including the newly appointed Minister of Health, Wu Yi. Everywhere Ho went, his mission was the same: to persuade Chinese officials to step up their modest anti-AIDS efforts and commit the resources necessary to launch a comprehensive nationwide program, modeled on the projects he has begun in Yunnan...
...July 11 polling day, voters responded, handing the DPJ 50 of the 121 seats contested, for a net gain of 12 seats. The LDP, meanwhile, won only 49-falling embarrassingly short even of its modest 51-seat goal. Although outright control of the government was never in question because the LDP retains a majority of the parliamentary seats that weren't up for election, the outcome has been a major blow to Koizumi, one that may cripple his ability to push through many of the financial-reform initiatives he has declared crucial to the remainder of his term (which...
...Montagnards were resettled in North Carolina, many of them in the city of Greensboro. (The U.S. special forces, whom the Montagnards fought alongside in Vietnam, are based there.) In some ways, these exiles could be viewed as the lucky ones. But of the eight men sitting in a modest Greensboro apartment one morning, seven still have wives in the Highlands and five have relatives in hiding there or in jail. All carry folders of papers listing the names, ages and villages of people they've been told are injured or missing. H., a 37-year-old refugee, has just...
Dinin, who is launching his publication through a personal investment of an unspecified amount, said his 02138 will have advertisements, but that most of the revenue will come from subscriptions and sales. He suggested that his magazine’s revenue goals are more modest than that of its counterpart...