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...live in the area where the Dale Burr murders occurred. Within a 100-mile radius, I know of three similar fatalities. It is sad that it took this tragedy to make national news. Thank you for making the world realize how bad the farming situation is. Diana Olgier Lewis Muscatine, Iowa...
...waves and clasped on one side by a polka-dot barrette. She is 23 years old. On her lap she holds her first child. He is two months old and wears an infant baseball uniform that says "All Pro." The mother's expression is both proud and sad, full of tenderness for this child and yet uncertain of him, or of herself; she has not played this part before. The dimples above the corners of her mouth look like quotation marks around her smile...
...been able to survive in captivity, now number only about 240. Fossey was a vigilant protector of her research subjects; in 1980 she reportedly abducted the child of a local woman suspected of stealing a baby gorilla, then offered to exchange hostages. Fossey's violent death bears a sad resemblance to that of another naturalist, Joy Adamson, author of the 1960 best seller Born Free, who was murdered in 1980 at her remote camp in Kenya. FINLAND More Radio Active Fallout...
Rockwell's eldest son, Jarvis, is pictured in the scene with his back to the dingy window. All around are other Rockwell touches: the sad-eyed but deeply moved traveler in the top left corner, the man of affairs with his cigar and the New York Times in the lower left. And in the center of the painting is the little boy with his floppy ears, sheared neck and Sunday best, edged off-center on his chair to get away from the slightly menacing young men with their cigarettes and to be nearer his only earthly security of the moment...
...Bascombe accounts for many affecting moments. His attempt to interview a former football player confined to a wheelchair is every journalist's nightmare: a hostile subject who undermines the project. The breakup with Nurse Vicki reveals that chilling instant when involved parties realize they have little in common. The sad truth about one's limits of interest and sympathy unfolds when a man Bascombe hardly knows insists on confessing his homosexual affair...