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...married and lived alone - until several years ago when failing health demanded that she hire nurses and a caretaker - in the house she had occupied with her parents and siblings in the historic Belhaven section of Jackson, the state's capital. Nothing about the Tudor-styled house on the oak-canopied street alerted passersby to the status of Welty's literary existence. An oak tree planted by Welty's mother decades ago still stands in the front yard...
...shocked President John Kufuor declared three days of mourning and called for an inquiry into the continent's worst-ever soccer disaster. Witnesses said people were crushed to death while fleeing tear gas fired by police to control rioting near the end of the match. Hometown team Hearts of Oak had just taken the lead against archrival Asante Kotoko. The death toll from the other recent stadium disasters in Africa...
...ranch near Boerne, Texas. Limestone rocks fly as the ATV chews up the steep slope. Ahead of her, a pair of African gemsbok antelope are running. At the summit, she pauses to drink in the view--and the silence--while the gemsboks peer at her from behind a live oak. "It was their hill before, but now we all share," she says, pointing out the sable and red lechwe antelope hiding nearby...
...OAK TECHNOLOGY makes chips and software for office equipment; printers; and scanning devices. "A simple, everyday tree; universal symbol of strength; less provocative than a Cypress or Sycamore...
...broadcasting laws, two others received suspended sentences and around 10 more are in jail, awaiting trial. Enterchannel is likely to get off with a $16,000 fine but Ebony was hauled in for questioning. "Police aren't trying to ban all sexual content on the Web," says Ha Oak Hyun, head of the Cyber Terror Response Center, a police unit recently set up to patrol cyberspace. But he says young Koreans, the biggest Internet users, need to be protected. Says Ha: "The level of sexual content that's available to young people isn't healthy...