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...Abou Alawi . "It's destroyed." Abou Alawi is a dentist assistant in Bint Jebel, a usually charming mountain town just less than 3 miles from the Israeli border. Before the war, its winding central street transformed into a bustling souk, or market, on Saturdays. Local artists read stories to schoolchildren in the community center...
Standing alone in a small enclosure, a 21-year-old Asian bull elephant named Billy seems oblivious to the two dozen schoolchildren who press against a chain-link fence to get a closer look. He bobs his massive head up and down and transfers his considerable weight from one side to the other. His trunk unfurls toward the blue plastic cylinder that has been provided for him to play with. Occasionally Billy lumbers over to another part of the yard--his massive gray body, wrinkled skin and billowy, fanlike ears intimidating yet at the same time irresistible. Some...
...towns and trade shirts with them. The reaction from traditional gamers tends to be 'Fine, but who do I shoot at?' But Animal Crossing is a hit, and Nintendogs has sold 6 million copies. (Incidentally, Miyamoto points out that Animal Crossing wasn't originally designed for girls. "Many female schoolchildren are purchasing and enjoying it," he says, cracking himself up. "Also ladies in their 20s. But the fact of the matter is, this game was developed by middle-aged guys in their 30s and 40s. They just wanted to create something to play themselves...
CityStep has been serving schoolchildren and audiences of the Cambridge community for over two decades. The club teaches dance, along with self-expression and self-confidence, to fifth-, sixth-, and seventh-graders at six schools in the Cambridge area. Each year of instruction culminates in the annual performance of original works, choreographed and performed by the children and their instructors...
...also seen a proliferation of sex videos, magazines and tabloids widely available to anyone who can afford them (the average price of a VCD is 5,000 rupiah, or about 55?). Racy programs are aired on late-night television, and one daytime soap even featured an episode in which schoolchildren watched porn videos in a group, then disappeared in pairs soon after. And the first issue of an Indonesian edition?albeit seminude?of Playboy magazine is scheduled to be published on April 7. All this has sparked a backlash from Indonesians worried about the country's moral direction. "The availability...