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...northwest Bosnian village of Kozarac, 50 miles from their hometown, life is hard for Zamaklaar's mother, father, grandmother, sister and brother. They have no income, and local Serbian dinar notes, one of three currencies circulating in Bosnia, are all but worthless. "They don't know anybody here. They just sit in the house all day and think about what happened to them," said Zamaklaar...
...grass and around the weathered limestone monument. Their mission: to learn the truth of Lewis' mysterious death by gunshot here on a Tennessee stretch of the Natchez Trace, the old road between Natchez, Mississippi, and Nashville, Tennessee, nearly 183 years ago. Did this pioneer, whose trek to the Pacific Northwest with William Clark has been a staple of grade-school quizzes for generations, take his own life that night at Grinder's Stand? Or was he murdered? "If Lewis had a chance to speak," muses Starrs, "what would he say? The only way he can speak is through his bones...
...problems, Morrow and our correspondents hold deep, largely positive feelings toward it -- not as a lost continent but as one yet to be found. "If I could arrange it, I think I would live there," says Morrow. He has even pinpointed the spot: "Probably around the Great Rift Valley, northwest of Mount Kenya on the Laikipia plateau." He could do worse...
...sorry, Mr. President, our time is almost over. One final question, if I may. Suppose that you are a venerable Douglas fir somewhere in the wilderness of the Pacific Northwest. And further suppose that your upper branches provide home and shelter for the endangered spotted owl. And then one day you hear the sound of approaching chain saws. The owls start to flap around you in alarm. And then you see the lumberjacks approaching your trunk, and you realize that the foreman of the crew is actually Elvis...
Outside the police station in the northwest town of Prijedor, dozens of Muslims stood in line to apply for permission to leave. As in most Serb-held territory, the departing can get exit papers only in exchange for signing a document relinquishing all claim to their property and possessions. Serb police chief Simo Drljaca gloated that none of the 9,000 Muslims he says applied to leave wanted to remain in the mayhem that is Bosnia...