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...anyone thought he could protect his children, it was Asad Abu Shouqa, a former Palestinian karate champion and an officer in Arafat's General Intelligence. But Abu Shouqa could not shield his son Haitham, 14, from his own choices, and the boy chose death. Abu Shouqa's hands, honed as hard as stone by martial arts, now are knotted into big, clumsy fists, pressing hard against each other. He sweats with the difficulty of controlling his rage as he talks about Haitham. He will not say what he would have told his son, had the boy confessed his plans...
...Toepfer, head of the U.N. program. On a more hopeful note, he added: "The Asian cloud is man-made, so it can be eliminated." MIDDLE EAST In the Wrong Place, at the Wrong Time The death of a Palestinian man revived criticism that the Israeli army is using human shields as part of its campaign in the West Bank. Palestinian witnesses said 19-year-old Nidal Abu M'khisan was forced at gunpoint to try to get Nasser Jarrar - a senior Hamas militant in the West Bank town of Tubas - to surrender. M'khisan was given a flak jacket...
...addition, students and affiliates covered by Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS), the insurance company used by Harvard, gained two other benefits yesterday...
...infant massage are also catching on and a rape-crisis center in North Carolina even offers massage or "safe touch" as part of its therapy. A national survey of employer-sponsored health plans by William M. Mercer found that 15% of HMOs offer massage. Cigna and Blue Cross Blue Shield cover massage in some packages...
...welcome even in towns and villages they've called home for generations. Many have been told that their only chance of regaining a normal life is to withdraw accusations of rape and murder against their neighbors. Pandarwada is a typical case. In March, the marauding mobs tried to shield their faces but were recognized anyway, and some 90 criminal complaints have been filed, though no arrests have yet been made. Headman Anilbhai Manubhai Modi is among the accused, but his uncle initially denies that at least 27 Muslims were killed in their 600-family farming village, then relents, explaining darkly...