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...family to Bombay: India will be the next China; if you're looking to the future, you've got to be in India. As the nation's business capital, Bombay is the crucible of India's hopes, drawing families like Afzad's, which came to the city's northern slum of Saki Nagar 15 years ago from a village hundreds of miles away in the interior. Ten people living in a two-bedroom shanty, they had television, electricity and a telephone, and a foothold in India's city of opportunity. "It was a good place," says 14-year-old Mohammed...
...HEATH, 89, moderate leader of Britain's Conservative Party who, as Prime Minister from 1970-74, brought the U.K. into the European Economic Community (now called the European Union); in Salisbury, England. His tenure was wracked with difficulties?an economy weakened by a global oil crisis and violence in Northern Ireland?and in 1975 a rising Margaret Thatcher ousted him from the party leadership. Though largely marginalized, he served in the House of Commons until his retirement...
...Some cycling observers wondered if the cancer survivor had enough left for his last Tour, a three-week, 2,232.7-mile trek though the northern and southern tiers of France. Now, we wonder if he could have won 10. Armstrong wore the yellow jersey for 16 (out of 21) stages, more than any of his previous six wins. After trailing fellow American Dave Zabriskie by two seconds through the first three flat stages in early July, Armstrong took the yellow jersey after the fourth stage, a team time trial in which Zabriskie crashed, ending his Tour. Armstrong gave the jersey...
...basement of a Cape Cod on a suburban street in northern New Jersey, a teenage boy turns to a friend and asks impatiently, "What did you get? I'll give you some of this"--indicating a bottle of Ritalin stuffed into the front pocket of his backpack--"for some of that painkiller." As a rap song plays just loud enough not to disturb the neighbors, his friend eyes the bottle suspiciously. "Is this generic, or is it the good stuff?" he asks. Upstairs, several teens are sitting at the kitchen table listening to a girl who looks to be about...
...Palm Beach Hotel is a dilapidated, low, white building, surrounded by portable toilets and topped by a camouflaged army guard post. The militant ethos of the hotel squatters has less in common with the prevailing attitudes in the Gaza settlements than it does with the atmosphere in the northern West Bank settlement of Sa-Nur, where military officials believe the evacuation is most likely to turn violent...