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...Idaho with a mason jar of old gold coins as the first step in a court case over who owns it. Construction worker GREGORY CORLISS, above, right, claims he was digging a driveway on Wenner's woodsy hideaway in Idaho when he noticed some coins in the soil. On further inspection, he and his boss, LARRY ANDERSON, found a mason jar full of them, dating from 1857 to 1914. Corliss says he gave them to Anderson as collateral for an $11,000 loan. When he came to pay the money back, Anderson refused to return the coins and gave them...
Perhaps. In the exaggerated mythology of the Balkans, eastern Herzegovina is the hard heart of Serb nationalism. The inhabitants pride themselves on being as inhospitable to interlopers as the rocky soil is to farming. "We see them as occupiers," a local Serbian Orthodox priest says of the NATO troops in the region. Also convenient for Karadzic is the region's extended, porous border with Serbia and Montenegro that provides ample escape routes in case of a snatch attempt. Most important, the entire region is in the French sector of NATO operations in Bosnia. Statistically, that is the safest place...
...from where his father is buried. It is a sizable sum, built up over the years from the surplus grain and vegetables he has been able to sell since farmers' markets were legalized in 1979 by Deng Xiaoping. Chen is content: after seven decades of working the soil and being nourished by it, he has made all the arrangements to return to it, in the simplest of life cycles. He represents the first wave of free enterprise in China's long effort to modernize. Now, in the second wave, rural people are heading for the cities and the opportunities they...
...renminbi ($1,250) each. Now the local officials are saying it will be just 7,000 renminbi. They will try to keep the rest." The new land is on top of a mountain, so it will not be nearly so good for farming as the rich alluvial soil they till now by the river's edge. "Everyone here is angry," he says...
This year, a memorial for those killed on June 4, 1989, was held for the first time on Chinese soil. Activists in Hong Kong, the most democratic locale in all of China, have taken it as their duty to make sure that those dissidents did not die in vain--that with each step President Clinton takes in Tiananmen Square, the cries of those who perished there will resonate forcefully around the world. Because of the rights people here have gained under British sovereignty and because of the international interest in Hong Kong in recent years, people feel that they...