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...recent years, thousands of Montagnards have fled the country for Cambodia, and many were subsequently resettled in the U.S. (Some 1,000 made the journey Stateside following the 2001 protests.) Another exodus to Cambodia has now begun. TIME has met more than 160 would-be refugees trapped in wet, mosquito-infested jungles, afraid of being rounded up by Cambodian police and repatriated. They are battling hunger and illness. "We came so that the international community would help us," says a Gia Lai man in Cambodia's Ratanakiri province. But so far, no help has come. Still, says another...
...most amazing and rewarding experiences of my life. Along with the laughter, there have been painful reminders of economic discrepancies—incomplete, rundown houses with state-of-the-art satellite dishes trumpeting their poverty—and moments of utter discomfort (other than sunburns and mosquito bites) when we encounter local hostility...
...playing. Not always. A 17th century Monteverdi opera has cleaner, fuller charts than many an old Broadway hit, whose arrangements might have ended up in the garage or the garbage. The sheet music for the Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II "Sweet Adeline," which had been performed outdoors, was festooned with mosquito carcasses. As Judith Daykin, who brought the series to City Center, told TIME's Elaine Rivera for an Encores! story we did in 1998: "The musicians didn't know if it was a note or a dead...
...reels on the gas pumps spin so fast these days that it's become almost impossible to stop them on an even dollar figure. I hate it when a mosquito buzzes my ear. I flick it away and then look back at the pump--which I was monitoring fiercely until that moment--and see the colossal, untidy sum: $40.03. Luckily, most service stations now have LEAVE A PENNY, TAKE A PENNY dishes that are meant to help customers who come up short, but sadly there's often nothing in them because so many other people share my problem. What...
...States - except that his girl friend has joined the WACs, grandpa is shooting rivets onto a battleship and mom is farming harder than Renee Zellweger in "Cold Mountain." And a couple of SNAFUs, including "Private SNAFU vs. Malaria Mike" (Jones, March 44), revived Geisel's Flit villain, the mosquito, to advise soldiers in the South Pacific to keep their beds netted and pants up. (SNAFU's pulchritudinous ass is a frequent target for enemy dive bombers...