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...Museum now, Kawamoto uses a long wooden pointer to indicate, in a large circular panorama, the route of the rest of his escape. Above the center of the panorama a bright red ball representing the hypocenter hangs by a cord. Kawamoto touches the pointer to the area of the playground, then moves it out into the city, away from the hypocenter, toward the Kyobashi River and the Miyuki Bridge...
Much of what Kawamoto saw between the school playground and the Miyuki Bridge is exhibited in the museum he directs. It is after hours now, so he is free to move easily from display case to display case, using one exhibit or another to illustrate his story. During regular hours the museum is packed with schoolchildren in uniform, pressing their noses against the windows of the cases; chattering; some horseplay from the bigger boys. On display is all that became of Hiroshima once the bomb dropped, along with historical memorabilia such as the directive from Lieut. General Carl Spaatz, commander...
DIED. PRINCE RAINIER III, 81, Europe's longest-reigning monarch, who, as ruler of Monaco for 56 years, transformed his tiny, nearly bankrupt principalitya longtime gambling playground for Europe's wealthy éliteinto a tourist-friendly international business center; after a month-long hospitalization for heart, lung and kidney ailments; in Monaco. With the help of his 1956 fairy-tale marriage to Hollywood royal Grace Kelly, Rainier modernized a community once called a "sunny place for shady people," building affordable hotels to draw middle-class visitors to its famed Monte Carlo casino and popularizing the mini-state, which...
...greatest danger is not the playground bully but something far worse: the possibility of being kidnapped and sold to a local warlord who fancies young boys. In Afghanistan, where a premium is placed on women's honor and chastity, young boys are often considered fair game for sex. Indeed, according to Ahmed Rashid, a Pakistani author and expert on the Taliban's rise, the religious movement, with its strict emphasis on law and order, started in the early 1990s after a drunken commander picked up one of Mullah Mohammed Omar's young seminarians and performed a mock, public wedding with...
DURHAM, N.H.—From the first drop of the puck, freshman Sarah Vaillancourt turned the Olympic-sized ice of New Hampshire’s Whittemore Center into her own personal playground...