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...misled by two villains, has a near-death water adventure and learns what it means to be human. Giordana, whose six-hour The Best of Youth is currently enchanting U.S. art-house audiences, here expertly creates an aura of family love that any child would be sick to be so suddenly and violently removed from. Then, instead of allowing the ecstatic exclamation point of a simple, hugging resolution to Sandro's maritime ordeal, he introduces question marks. Can children who have gone through hell, like Radu and Alina, be expected to act like angels when they've reached the heaven...
...first time Marc Laidlaw played Doom it made him sick. It was not the violence; it was motion sickness--the game was so intense and immersive it actually messed with his inner ear. He immediately switched to the gentle, atmospheric adventure game Myst and developed another ailment: he became addicted. "I pretty much didn't get up from the computer for two days," he remembers...
...feeling, but the foot hangs limp. It may never move again. Just last week polio was officially diagnosed in Fikri, the first Indonesian child to test positive for the virus in 10 years. Three other cases have been confirmed in the area, and hundreds of other children--some suspiciously sick already--are being examined. "The virus has probably been circulating for a month," says Dr. Georg Petersen, an on-site representative of the World Health Organization (WHO). "We can expect more cases...
...Good teachers know their curriculum, maintain order and enjoy the company of children. "But at the end of the day," says P. & C. boss Brownlee, "those children belong to a family." Just as nurses in pediatric wards must be constantly reassuring the relatives of the sick, she says, teachers are obliged to accommodate parents, even those lacking in tact and good manners...
...chair of BGLTSA, said the organization often receives hate messages via e-mail. Barusch read out loud some of the last lines of the hate mail, which included, “Stay the fuck off my campus,” and “You are sick, we will crush you like the little bugs...