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When you break your neck and sever your spine, leaving your legs and hands paralyzed, you don't expect to drive a car. Of course, driving isn't your first concern. There are more elementary needs, like getting across a room or lifting a fork or signing your name...
...work. Instead she lives with her mother. She takes the occasional odd job and gets help from her children's father, who kicks in support "whenever he can." Health care is tough--"I have a pile of bills this high," she says--but she found a hospital emergency room that treats her kids even when she can't pay. Wells succeeded in bucking a major national trend. She didn't join the millions of Americans who have left the welfare rolls in recent years for gainful employment...
...girls. Pizza restaurants are called Happy and Ecstatic in honor of their ganja toppings, and two of the main sites of entertainment have long been shooting ranges (public and private) where you can lob hand grenades or fire away with M-16 assault rifles. To rent a 24-room guesthouse on a lake, with a view of distant temples, costs $425 a month...
According to SSP proctors, at least two students have been expelled for having alcohol in their dorm room, and several have been given strict curfews or been placed on probation...
...reunified. "The U.S. is being very careful not to repeat the mistake that preceded the 1991 Gulf War, when Washington failed to make clear to Saddam Hussein that it would not tolerate Iraq's invading Kuwait," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "This time they want to leave no room for doubt that they would respond if China attacks...