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...half of our group that worked on the clinic project, adding a 1400 square foot addition to a health center that offered low-cost medical care to poor residents. When we arrived, all that stood on the site was a ring of cinder blocks surrounding a sea of mud. When we left, the floor and walls were built and the roof was half completed...
...corner lies a new grave, the bare earthen mound not yet pounded flat by rain. A miniature Christmas tree, a few cheap ornaments clinging to its brown branches, adorns the tomb. Two tiny Santas in plastic bags, a mud- spattered price tag still attached, poke up out of the dirt. No plaque marks this resting place, perhaps betraying a neglect born of the longing to forget...
...Federal Express Orange Bowl). "It used to be that sport was sport, and business was business," says Norman Chad, who writes about media for the sports daily the National. "Now sports is business. Something that was once sweet and in some ways idyllic now is in the mud with everything else...
Williams' cowpoke image and a bundle of cash have propelled him to the fore in a mud-spattered primary season. Riding a nearly 2-to-1 lead over his nearest rival, Texas Railroad Commissioner Kent Hance, into this week's G.O.P. election, he seemed a good bet to win outright, avoiding a runoff. One recent poll shows him going on to beat handily any candidate the Democrats nominate...
...monsoon-brushed province of Dhofar. Southwest of the former slave-trading port of Sur lies a 5,000-sq.-mi. sea of sand whose dune ridges rise as high as 350 ft. above the Wahiba desert floor. To the north, the Jebel Akhdar (Green Mountain) anchors the Hajar range. Mud-brick houses cling to its steep slopes, and fortresses whose foundations precede the age of Islam guard entry to its valleys...