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...Some showed no external wounds, but they had gone crazy from the bombing or from being parted from their families. They clung to the legs of the soldiers, imploring them, 'Where are my children?' The younger women, distraught, began climbing the tent poles, crying, 'Mother! Mother!' I could not sleep that night, or the next day, or even the next. The women cried for two days, but on the third, they were too exhausted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What the Boy Saw: A Fire In the Sky | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

...that Kawamoto was alive, though he did not mention Taibi. That was when Mrs. Kawamoto hired the boat and began her search of the islands. Meanwhile, Kawamoto returned to the tent and waited, not knowing whether his mother had received his message or not. He began to get some sleep on Aug. 9, sleeping heavily for several hours at a time in the dark tent, lit only by candles, half waking when the women screamed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What the Boy Saw: A Fire In the Sky | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

Some men, no doubt, will, before sleep, consider One thought: I am alone. But some. In the mercy of God, or booze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What the People Saw: A Vision of Ourselves | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

...give it a try, but my mother told me, 'Wait, just wait, you need more poise.' This year, all of a sudden she told me, 'You have to do it now.' " The victory was worth $175,000 in cash and prizes. Next morning, with just two hours of sleep, Carthy told reporters, "It's heaven. I dreamed all night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 29, 1985 | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

Outside the capital, the protest movement has been most visible on college campuses, where, in raising their fists against apartheid, demonstrators have also raised memories of the '60s. At the University of California, Berkeley, about 200 protesters staged a sleep-in vigil in April that culminated in 159 arrests. Harvard has seen a dozen demonstrations, including a silent ten-day vigil in front of the college's spiritual center, the statue of Founder John Harvard. At Cornell, students built a settlement of mock South African shanties and lived inside them until a fire swept through the area and the local...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Principle of Vital Importance | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

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