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...Carpenter, love songs aren't mainly about passion, and love isn't only what you felt for the person you slept with until the night before last. It can be the memory of an elder sibling whose departure from home left the first big hole in a child's heart (Only a Dream), or the appeal of North Carolina's rural landscape seen as "a blur from the driver's side" (I Am a Town). Even her least typical hit -- Down at the Twist and Shout, the Cajun-ragin' Grammy winner from her 1990 album, Shooting Straight in the Dark...
...caftans emblazoned with tulips and pomegranates and rocked to sleep in hazelnut cradles plated in silver and sprinkled with emeralds and diamonds. When they went to war, they donned conical helmets decorated with floral patterns and studded with turquoise and rubies, fought with ivory-inlaid muskets and swords and slept in satin-lined field tents. Even their horses pranced around in gold-plated headgear and golden stirrups...
Some of those falling through, like Pronin, do not even figure in official statistics. The Kaliningrad native moved to Moscow in 1989 after a dispute with management at the factory where he worked. He slept on the streets and at railway stations, and lived for a while in a tent city that was pitched outside the walls of the Kremlin for six months in 1990. "It's so hard to live these days. I am an invalid, and I have almost no means of survival," says Pronin, whose hollow-cheeked face and legs twisted by an accident he refuses...
...Francisco quake, that death was particularly poignant. The parents of Joseph Bishop, 3, had traveled across the U.S. from Newburyport, Mass., to visit the town of Yucca Valley for a high school reunion; the little boy was killed when a fireplace tumbled down on him while he slept. The quake also caused more than 400 injuries and $91 million in property damage, along with widespread power outages and temporary disruptions to local water supplies...
...homeless people lodged in the church'sbasement slept at the nearby Longy School of musicSunday night. By last night, the church basementhad been sufficiently cleared of water to allowthem to return, according to Morgan...