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For a placid taxi driver called Life, that identity means confinement to a segregated township. There, boredom and despair are as palpable as the omnipresent automobile carcasses and piles of beer cans. Jaiprakash Bhula is an educated Indian haberdasher, contemptuous of racial decrees. His question gnaws at South African policy...
"We have piles and piles of forms," said Carol Finn, assistant to the Dunster masters.
Survivors of a genocidal war, Cambodians carry traumatic psychological burdens. Sometimes it seems as if the war has quite literally followed them across the sea. In the municipal cemetery in Stockton, Calif., a few graves are marked by odd, poignant gifts: plastic dolls, balloons, soft-drink cans, plates of fruit...
Although a confirmation slip informs senders that their document has been spit out of another fax, they have no way of knowing their messages haven't been stacked in ever-growing piles of thermal paper--or simply thrown out.
There is another sort of life as well. All around Antarctica the coast is dotted with corrugated-metal buildings, oil-storage tanks and garbage dumps -- unmistakable signs of man. No fewer than 16 nations have established permanent bases on the only continent that belongs to the whole world. They were...