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...million rupiah (about $3,200) to owners of badly damaged homes so they can quickly get back on their feet, without waiting months for a grand?and cumbersome?reconstruction plan of the sort devised for Aceh after the 2004 tsunami. In some areas life is already returning to normal. Malioboro, Yogyakarta's main tourist drag, is open for business again. "Visitors are slowly returning, but they are mostly local," says Suhartono, a batik vendor. "We hope it won't be like Bali [after the bombings], with foreigners afraid to come...
...many, it's hard to imagine that life will ever return to normal. Samyono, a 65-year-old grandmother discharged from the hospital after getting stitches for a head wound, has resorted to begging. After seven hours walking around her village of Wedi in the hot sun, she has managed to collect 400 rupiah, or 40 cents, in handouts. "I don't know what else to do," says Samyono, "since my home is gone and I have nowhere to go." For her and so many others, the disaster seems to be just beginning...
...reasons I wrote the Vietnam memoir A Rumor of War was to show how that kind of war can bring out a psychopathic streak in men of otherwise normal behavior and impulses. When a soldier is fighting guerrillas, he can often feel like a helpless victim. I imagine that must be especially true in Iraq with these roadside bombs. After a while, that's got to bring out a killer instinct in even the best troops. And soldiers in combat get very close to one another. That's one of the saving graces of battle, but it can work against...
Bravo for your reporting on autism and treatment options [May 15]. I encounter many toddlers and young children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders. Explaining the diagnosis to parents causes them immediate confusion, panic and pain at the loss of the "normal child" they expected, as they confront a child who responds to the world in his own foreign code. Your article highlighted the Floortime approach. My colleagues and I are firm believers that for most children and families, it is the method that best enhances the bonding between child and parent, child and therapist, and eventually child and peers. The therapy...
...pressure to choose a particular school. While he considered enrolling in the Naval Academy, Leder says it wasn’t until he realized he wanted to pursue a career in medicine that he decided on Harvard. The M.D.-to-be was not without his share of the normal worries that accompany any first-year at Harvard.“I feared going to Harvard because I thought I was a fraud and they would find out,” he says. “I figured I knew myself better than they did.”But freshman year...