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...inside to read that sign last week, pupils of Holy Cross--Roman Catholic girls as young as four, none older than 11--got a brutal lesson in belief. To get to school, they had to run a gauntlet of abuse from their Protestant neighbors that began with insults and spit and within days escalated to bricks and blast bombs. Scores of police and soldiers were injured protecting the children. As the chaos spread, a Protestant school bus was stoned, and a Catholic motorist--apparently reacting to stone-throwing attacks--struck and killed a Protestant teenager...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Shame of Belfast | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

...inside to read that sign last week, the pupils of Holy Cross - Catholic girls as young as four, none older than 11 - got a brutal lesson in belief. To reach school they had to run a gauntlet of abuse from their Protestant neighbors that began with insults and spit and escalated within days to bricks and blast bombs. Scores of police and soldiers were injured protecting the children. As the chaos spread, a Protestant school bus was stoned and a Catholic motorist - apparently reacting to stone-throwing attacks - struck and killed a Protestant teenager. "It will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Suffer The Little Children | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

...grown produce and unfussily prepared meat and fish with a Cali-Tuscan twist. If not for Waters, we'd still be wandering in that culinary wilderness between Salisbury steak TV dinners and French foo-foo food smothered in cream. Waters' anniversary meal cost $500 a head and featured lamb, spit roasted over oak and cherrywood fires, served with sauteed chanterelles, and mulberry ice cream cones for dessert. Missed the foodie event of the year? Waters is offering her services on eBay, with proceeds going to her Chez Panisse Foundation for youth and community projects. Bids for a Waters-prepared dinner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 10, 2001 | 9/10/2001 | See Source »

...fire. All I had to do in order to take a boat out alone was attend two onshore classes—one that taught me the theory behind sailing, and the other that taught me to put the sail up before taking off. Once I demonstrated that I could spit out what they told me in the classes, I was given my “solo” ranking and told I could take a boat out on calm days...

Author: By Laura K. Cobb, | Title: POSTCARD FROM CAMBRIDGE: Learning To Sail | 8/10/2001 | See Source »

...thing, with all their sensors," says Sean Van Sommeran, executive director of the Pelagic Shark Research Foundation in Santa Cruz, Calif. When they do attack a human, the weight of evidence now suggests, they have mistaken a person for a seal or some other prey, and most often will spit out human flesh after the first bite. The problem is, of course, that the one bite comes from jaws that are up to 3 ft. across and lined with hundreds of knives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Can't We Be Friends? | 7/30/2001 | See Source »

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