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Amid the grim, impersonal regularity of natural disasters, we are often unmoved by statistics. It is the individual snapshots that bring Turkey's tragedy home. In the devastated town of Duzce, a British rescuer wedged deep in a narrow crevice heard a tap-tap-tap so close he could almost touch whoever was making the sound. Then an aftershock cascaded masonry through the 30-ft. tunnel as the rescuers slithered back out. When they took another route and reached the spot where the tapping had been heard, two dead bodies lay there. "It hurts when it ends like this," team...
...shrugs it off. Her husband, a surgical technician, is African American. Her three grown biological sons are biracial. The four children they adopted are black. The women who have accepted her offer so far constitute a mixed group: 26 Caucasians, 24 African Americans and 11 Hispanics. From her narrow kitchen, where the fax machine is wedged between the microwave and the electric grill pan, Harris heaps scorn on the naysayers as she whips up cheese sandwiches for lunch. "The people who yell the loudest aren't the ones raising these kids," she scoffs. "Unless you're willing to take these...
...rash of disciplinary cases brought this summer, some resulting in expulsions, have SSP students re-reading their student handbooks and staying on the straight and narrow, according to some proctors...
...hottest job on Capitol Hill. Each workday he puts on two suits, one over the other, both made of materials that seal out dust but trap heat. Then he wraps his wrists and ankles, pulls a rubber respirator over his head and climbs more than 200 ft. into the narrow space between the Capitol's inner and outer domes. Gilbo, who lives in Georgetown, Mass., is part of a 10-man crew removing poisonous lead paint from cast-iron walls in temperatures that regularly soar above 100[degrees]F. "It's a pretty hostile environment," says Gilbo, who says...
...Taiwanese leader since the U.S. dropped diplomatic recognition of Taiwan in 1979, the incident seemed trivial. But China literally went ballistic. In the midst of Lee's campaign for re-election, the People's Republic, which regards Taiwan as a "renegade province," staged ominous military exercises in the narrow waterway separating the island from the mainland, firing test missiles. Washington responded by dispatching two carrier battle groups to the region, and the world trembled at the possibility of armed conflict between the great powers...