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...most important Christian projects in Kunming is the city's orphanage. It was in dire straights 10 years ago, according to missionaries who worked there at the time. Adoptions were rare. The only sure way out of the institution was death, which came quickly from scant food, unsanitary bedding and lack of care. Workers received no training or oversight, nor adequate funds. When embarrassing reports of abuses in a Shanghai orphanage surfaced five years ago, Kunming officials came close to barring Christian workers from the building. Through the years, however, they have managed to stay. "The cooperation of orphanage workers...
Last summer Shaggy released Hotshot, a sleek confection of R.-and-B.-tinged reggae, to scant attention. But he has since pulled off a coup that few reggae artists have ever achieved. Steadily pushing his way up the pop chart, he has knocked off one blockbuster after another: Limp Bizkit, Nelly, Creed, even the Beatles. Finally, this week he passed Jennifer Lopez, making him the first reggae artist ever to top the pop charts since Shabba Ranks in 1991. His accomplishment is all the more remarkable because it's the sort of breakout that has attracted buyers from 12-year...
...less-developed regions, such as the Balkans and Africa, where heavy guns generally can't maneuver. Artillery--with its less than precise targeting--is designed to disrupt the massed armor and troop concentrations found on traditional battlefields. But future conflicts will focus on swift, dispersed combatants that provide scant prey for artillery...
...entrepreneurs. Sevin Rosen, the venture-capital firm that launched Compaq Computer, recently pumped $2 million into a California start-up that plans to build low-radiation phones. At the same time, a cottage industry has sprung up to market shielding devices that block out radiation, although most have scant scientific evidence to support their claims of effectiveness...
That's the bad news. The good news is that help appears to be on the way, and with a little luck it might just arrive in time. For after years of paying scant attention to infectious diseases, pharmaceutical companies have begun to comb through the vast chemical libraries assembled over the past decade in search of new antimicrobial agents. The effort is starting to pay off. Since September 1999, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved two new antibiotics that target both the enterococci and staphylococci. One--linezolid--seems particularly promising; it represents the first new class...