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...yahoos of the movement could not foresee that Lian would get an excellent though surreptitious education in the detention camp. The reason is simple: some of the country's finest scholars are there. Unable to show off her forbidden knowledge in public, Lian retreats to a nearby pond to lecture the frogs. This precocious charmer even persuades the camp director to keep a dog. He does, but only until he needs to convince visiting inspectors that his prisoners are getting enough meat...
DIED. CORY ERVING, 19, son of basketball legend Julius ("Dr. J") Erving; in Sanford, Fla. Missing since May 28, he was found in his car at the bottom of a pond less than a mile from home. The cause of death was not immediately determined...
...France $1 is worth 6.9 francs this month, versus 6.3 last year. That means a Paris hotel room, regularly $200 a night, now runs about $181. In Italy the dollar buys a hefty 2,038 lira, up 9.2% over last year. Buon giorno, Florence! Even getting across the pond is a bit cheaper. Summer airfares to Europe are down 5% from '99, according to the American Express International Airfare Index...
...animal world helps explain not only how mothering strategies work but also how they sometimes break down. Confused teens aren't the only mothers who abandon their babies; other mammals do it too. Parents may recoil when a Susan Smith drowns her sons in a South Carolina pond, but scientists routinely observe infanticidal animals--apparently driven by similarly dark demons--committing similarly black acts...
...Europe's economy but also of that fragile European pride, and he's biting his nails at the suggestion that in the monetary equivalent of Airbus vs. Boeing, the euro can't seem to stay aloft. Perhaps it's some comfort to know that the Fed chairman across the pond is moving as fast...