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...also had a family background packed with violence. His father Rafael, a butcher, was convicted of shooting a neighbor to death. Avila was only 17 at the time. Just a year ago, his brother Juan was found dead in Rosarito, Mexico, with a bullet in the back of his neck...
Renrui hates squats the most. The bar hurts her neck and shoulders, and you don't want to get her started on her throbbing quads. But the 25-year-old office worker is already 15 days into a 45-day physical fitness program at the Furongfang Women's Health Club in booming Guangzhou, and she isn't quitting. "There's a lot of pressure for young women to keep a stable job and find a good husband," says Renrui as she grimaces with the exertion of another deep knee- bend. "Exercise lets me relieve the stress I get from society...
...facing the death penalty, Eurico Guterres doesn't look anxious. Sitting in a steamy Jakarta courthouse, a ceiling fan whirring overhead, he appears to have given more consideration to choosing his outfit?combat fatigues smartly pressed, a red and white scarf tied fastidiously around his neck?than to saving his own skin. Guterres is a central figure in the first ever human-rights trials held on Indonesian soil, a highly public attempt to account and atone for the carnage that occurred in East Timor in 1999 when the Indonesian military, in conjunction with local militias, viciously turned on supporters...
...night before he died, Kile told his brother he was tired and his right shoulder hurt. Unexplained pain that lasts more than five minutes in either arm or anywhere in the chest, jaw, neck or back can be a sign of a life-threatening heart problem. Was it just Kile's pitching arm acting up or a hint that something most serious was wrong? We will never know...
...good luck for granted. In his studies he remains true to his roots as a hardworking peasant, rising before dawn to pore over piles of flash cards, "relishing the real taste of pretty words and beautiful phrases such as nostalgia, willow bay, nip and tuck, nape of the neck and tiptoe," and struggling his way through Jack London and James Michener. By the heartwarming tale's end, the bumbling country boy Chen Da is well on his way to becoming the talented American writer, Da Chen...