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...phone call came while Robert Shaw, features editor at the Des Moines Register, was researching a story at the newspaper's library. His son Benjamin, three months old, had stopped breathing during his afternoon nap. "They told me to meet my wife at the hospital, which is about five blocks from my office," Shaw recalls. "I ran all the way." Shaw was told that his son could not be revived. "I picked him up, held him and said goodbye." An autopsy yielded no clues to the tragedy. Like 7,000 other babies in the U.S. each year, Benjamin had fallen...
...hour. "The pay is incredibly low and the hours are incredibly long," says JoAnn Lum, program director for the Chinese Staff & Workers' Association in New York City. She tells of one garment-district employee who worked 36 hours straight, then was docked for taking a one-hour nap. Nonpayment of wages is also rampant. According to Lum, one group of 35 workers is owed $120,000 in back pay by their employers. "They are slaves, pure and simple," says a U.S. immigration official. "Many end up in bondage, forced to become gang enforcers or drug couriers...
Allegations surfaced that Koresh physically abused the children with frequent harsh beatings for infractions as minor as crying after a nap. But child-welfare authorities who investigated last year found no evidence at the time to support those charges. By 1991 Koresh was also traveling to La Verne, California, where in a gated house he established what police called a "women's dormitory" for 18 "wives." When neighbors reported that one of them was 12 years old, police launched a child-molestation investigation against Koresh that is still open...
After devouring Red Raider cookies for 20 or so straight minutes, the Harvard men's hockey team decided to take a short nap. It woke up with an awful tummy ache, which could have turned into something much worse...
Tracy (26 saves) only got a 20-minute nap for the evening, however, as Union took advantage of several Crimson lulls in the second and third periods to pound away at the freshman goaltender. He made two beautiful glove saves midway through the second and staved off Union's five-minute man-up advantage near the end of the third period...