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...depends on the determination of the residents alone, Gorazde might never fall to the Serbian guns that have surrounded the 232-sq.-mi. pocket for 10 months. For 70,000 people, a murderous route over the mountains is their only lifeline. Night after night, they come to an isolated valley in eastern Bosnia, where authorities stockpile 110-lb. flour sacks and sometimes canisters of cooking oil. One evening last week, 400 people loaded all they could into rucksacks and onto the backs of 60 ponies, and trudged off on the dangerous trek back across the snowy mountains -- the only...
...most dangerous places are the squalid camps where roofers and construction workers live. With 270 sq. mi. of destruction and few hotels in the disaster zone, 5,000 to 10,000 itinerant workers and locals now live in these makeshift tent cities, according to estimates by Dade County officials. Mike Anelli, a 28-year-old carpenter from New Jersey who has set up camp near the destroyed Homestead Air Force Base, says he wakes nightly to the sound of gunfire. "It's like a Mad Max movie after a nuclear war, what with the fires at night, the rusted heaps...
Sony fired the first shot last October when it unleashed the MiniDisc player, a $750 gadget that plays or records music on a 2 1/2-in.-sq. disc. Philips returned the fire the next month with the digital-compact-cassette (DCC) player, a $799 home tape deck that can use a new type of digital cartridge as well as old-style cassettes. Now Sony is introducing yet another model: a $1,000 home MiniDisc player and recorder that will hit stores in April...
...county, where the median family income is $46,700 a year, is home to a successful Asian-American community of doctors, engineers, teachers and small businessmen. The Tays, Chinese immigrants from Singapore, used the profits from Dr. Alfred Tay's medical practice to custom-build their 8,000-sq.-ft. home in an exclusive section of the city of Orange and to provide costly luxuries for their son and daughter. Stuart was a former Boy Scout, an academic standout at Foothill High School, and a founder of an Asian-culture club who hoped to attend a top-ranked college next...
Though the spill was not so awful as had been feared, it did create a costly scare. Nearly 400 sq. mi. of fishing grounds, including 11 of the Shetlands' 61 salmon farms, have been closed until both the water and the fish can be tested for oil contamination. "We think things look good now," says Alistair Goodlad, co-owner of Bressay Salmon Co. "But we can't take a chance. We will voluntarily stay closed until we know things are safe." Experts are also testing sheep to discover the effect of their grazing on oil-tainted pastures...