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...there is little shelter or food or water to be found. There is, however, peace. Mohammed Ali, a gaunt 60-year-old Ethiopian farmer, led his wife and five children on a ten-day walk to Sudan's Wad Sherife camp. At the end of the road he found scant sustenance. "I miss my village," Ali told TIME's Philip Finnegan, "but I am glad I came. I am afraid of the war. Even if I am hungry here, I don't hear the bombs and the fighting...
...boost students' SAT scores an average of 185 points (a perfect SAT mark is 1600; the national norm is 897, or 471 on mathematics and 426 on verbal skills). Katzman's top students, writes Owen, show average gains of 250 points. In singling out the Princeton Review, Owen gives scant attention to longer-established coaching services, like the 47-year-old Stanley H. Kaplan Educational Center, based in New York City with branches in 120 cities, that make more modest claims of 100- to 175-point improvements...
Within a few years Pickens had found enough oil and gas to attract investors from throughout the Panhandle. He had also become a workaholic, and that cost Pickens his marriage. His wife took little interest in his work, and he paid scant attention to anything else. They were divorced in 1971. "It was almost jealousy," says their son Michael, 30, a Dallas stockbroker and the third of the couple's four children. "Everyone admired his success, and she did not even know what was going on." Debra, 35, the oldest child, remembers Pickens as an absentee father: "He worked...
...people, mostly from Tigre and Welo, have been moved. According to guerrilla spokesmen, those taken for resettlement are often ripped away from their families. When they arrive in the south, the refugees reportedly discover few reception areas, little shelter or medicine and scant food. The newcomers, residents of the arid highlands, are also susceptible to diseases of the low- lying south like malaria and amoebic dysentery...
Clark, 53, whose friendship with Reagan goes back to the President's two terms as Governor of California, arrived in Washington as Deputy Secretary of State under Alexander Haig. Clark's appointment raised eyebrows because of his scant knowledge of foreign affairs. But he quickly overcame the know-nothing image. During his 15-month reign at Interior, Clark has changed few of his predecessor's policies, but he has scored points with some conservationists for at least listening to their concerns...