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...temperature and their injuries had left them severely dehydrated. Because light colors reflect heat and dark ones absorb it, some bomb victims had the images of their clothing tattooed on their flesh: the pattern of a kimono on a woman's back, the unburned swath left by a sash around the waist of an otherwise charred man. "Big black flies appeared and tried to lay eggs on human flesh," says survivor Michiko Watanabe, now 65. "The injured were so weak that they couldn't brush away the flies that nestled in their hands and necks. Some were black from...
...travel, after all? In order to have a paper sash over the toilet seat? To enjoy a comfortable, momentary change of perspective--a vacation as the equivalent of rolling over in one's sleep? Or to lose oneself? To pass through distance into some new place where the eyes become capable, for a moment, of a fresh transparency. Slide into the Pleistocene: under a thorn tree in Masai Mara, say, a cheetah tears at the Thomson's gazelle it has nailed for lunch. All around in a semicircle, the minibuses sprout glaring bwanas from their sunroofs. The onion peels...
...pushover for the powers that be in the P.R.I. In a system where acting Presidents refrain from investigating the crimes of their predecessors as a guarantee that their own peccadilloes will not fall under scrutiny, he has taken on the man who personally picked him to don the presidential sash. Now Mexicans hope that the inroads Zedillo has made can be broadened into a full-scale reform of their political, judicial and social system...
Flags at State Police headquarters will be flying at half-mast for the next thirty days, and officers will be wearing a small black sash around their uniform badges as a symbol of mourning, according to Capt. Robert J. Byrd, commander of public affairs for the state police...
Some chose stickers and buttons rather than balloons. "In Eliot, people didn't think it was appropriate to bring balloons into the chapel, so [none of the Eliot seniors have] balloons," said Eliot Master Kristine L. Forsgard, wearing a "Lift the Ban" sticker on her sash. "But there's lots of support...