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...five fingers. In the Philippines we only had mild behavior problems, and they're easily addressed because of the culture, the family and value given to adults." In addition, she taught only two periods a day in the Philippines, and she now has to teach six. "It's been rough," she says. "The only two things helping me are my prayers and the support that the principal and teachers give...
...Dyke is one of the last of the wildcatters, independent operators who roam jungles and deserts looking for black gold. He has become the man to see if you need millions of barrels of crude oil a day to fuel a booming industrializing country, which is why the rough-hewn geologist found himself in Bermuda two years ago, hammering out a deal with executives of the Chinese national oil company Sinopec. "They were under pressure," Van Dyke recalls, and they were ready to make a deal. That meeting set in motion a year of negotiations, culminating in a $40 million...
...Immediately before her encounter with psychiatry, Rebekah Beddoe was a normal girl having a rough trot. By the time of her inspired decision three years later to take herself off her medications, she'd been diagnosed with five separate mental disorders and drugged to within an inch of her life. Heavy doses of an antipsychotic have left her a diabetic and her left arm is a canvas of self-inflicted scars. Somehow, her family remains intact. She married Jemima's father, Nigel, in the midst of her trials and the three of them are going strong. She can find...
...with Brown University taking home top honors with a tally of 206.“I thought it was good on the whole, especially with what happened to us,” senior Vincent Porter said. “To get third was a good feeling after suffering some rough breaks.”The strong Sunday effort saved Harvard from a middle-of-the-road finish after a frustrating Saturday. Manning the A-division, juniors Clay Johnson and Kristen Lynch finished dead last out of eighteen competing teams in two of the first eight races. They also ended...
Like most obsessive golfers, Paul McNeill occasionally ponders the game's standard frustrations--the blown putts, the sliced drives into the rough--and questions his devotion to such a maddening pursuit. But as a regular at Kabul's only golf course, McNeill puts up with some extra hazards that would test the mettle of Tiger Woods. The grassless fairways of rock and stubble are cratered by rocket shells. The greens are in fact brown, a mix of oil and dirt with the consistency of quicksand. Approach shots are complicated by the possibility that insurgents have planted land mines...