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...15th anniversary at the end of this school year, has 176 students in grades 9 through 12. Almost all are Navajos -- the Dine, as they call themselves, which means the "People." This year there are also three Anglos, as whites around here are invariably called. Nestled against a high shelf of rock, the school consists of a snug quadrangle of dilapidated buildings on the grounds of a turn-of-the-century Methodist mission. It has a pleasant atmosphere and, if you blur your eyes a bit, looks like a down-at-the-heels New England prep school transferred...
While Bush was overseas, a handful of new polls were published showing increasing doubts in the U.S. about gulf policy and Bush's leadership. Members of Congress and other self-acclaimed authorities on war and foreign policy tuned up once the President's plane crossed the continental shelf. Forty-five House Democrats filed a court suit challenging Bush's authority to wage war against Iraq without congressional approval. The Washington Post sought out the opinions of eight presidential scholars, and all but one were worried about Bush's softening hold on the American mind; their dour musings were syndicated across...
...risen from Rockland's slime to shame their creator. Most of them, he says, had shamed him already, by collecting thumbprints and rejection letters from virtually all the reputable publishing houses in New York City and Boston. What gave him the courage to deep-six such a large shelf of certifiably lame literature, however, was an acceptance. The Friends of Eddie Coyle, a gritty, amiably cynical tale about barroom lowlifes and courthouse small-timers in Massachusetts, had been bought by Knopf. Higgins prepared, at last, for overnight success. What followed showed why novel writing is a chancy trade. Reviewers loved...
Since the U.S. military invaded Panama last December and brought back General Manuel Noriega for trial in Miami on drug-trafficking charges, the former dictator has had just one link to the outside world: a beige telephone sitting on a shelf outside his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center. The phone has two little stickers attached, one in Spanish, one in English, warning him that all calls are monitored. If Noriega wants to make a call, a guard dials the number and waits for a reply before handing over the instrument. Only conversations with Noriega's defense lawyers are deemed...
...common cooking oils, canola contains the lowest level of saturated fat -- the kind that boosts blood cholesterol, the villain in many forms of heart disease. Like other oils, canola boasts a long shelf life, has the ability to remain odorless at high frying temperatures and averages 120 calories per tablespoon. But canola's biggest attraction is its scant, 6% level of saturated fat, in contrast to 14% in olive oil and 51% in palm oil. Canola also contains high levels of monounsaturated fat. For a number of years, consuming that substance was thought to reduce the "bad" type of cholesterol...