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...quite devoted to him--and certainly overjoyed to get him back--Larissa Tsibliyev couldn't help wincing when she heard her husband equate mission success with personal survival. Vasily had made it sound as if he had gone up to Mir on a dare, like riding the roof of a prewar elevator. And now the family had been shamed, and the neighbors would snicker and cluck and throw at their windows whatever rotting turnips could be spared in these difficult times...
Meanwhile, in the ongoing skirmish on the northern border, Israel has retaliated after yesterday's rocket attack by bombing a Hizballah base on the Lebanese-Syrian frontier. Two children were hurt when the roof of their house collapsed in eastern Lebanon...
...civil war all but destroyed Cambodia's frail, poorly funded cultural infrastructure; French-trained Khmer curators were murdered; the National Museum was reduced to a bat-infested wreck, its roof caving in, and abandoned for four years after 1975. (It has since been partially repaired by the Australian government, but, as one of the contributors to the show's excellent catalog bluntly observes, "The museum staff lacks the expertise and resources to repair and conserve the sculpture, or to catalogue the collection. [This] can only be rectified with international help.") As if this weren't enough, a major problem around...
Although a number of Fastnet's complaints about the building's condition have been addressed including the recent construction of a new roof, owner Tony O'Baoill said he intends to relocate because "there's no future here...
...locals. "We don't see too many white kids on Beecher Street," Nicole says one of them commented. The two boys guided them to a store where Nicole bought a pack of Newports and a Coke. The three wandered over to a school, climbed up piping to the roof and sat talking and smoking until the sun set. Resuming their search for a restaurant and phone, they came across two black kids who told them a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant was two blocks away. They never found the KFC. Instead they happened upon "a big crowd of guys" walking...