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...rebel; one lewd strand of hair snakes down to his cheek. He's an orphan; his parents, the notorious Alphabet Bomber (Airport, Barber shop, Car wash, Drug store . . .) and spouse, were electrocuted together long before he turned teen. He's Wade Walker, and when the world that has branded him a juvenile delinquent weighs too heavily on his high school hellcat soul, his eye moistens with a single salty tear. So the kids call him Cry-Baby. Says Wade defiantly: "That's Mr. Baby...
Protesters at the Strand, a conservative seaside town 20 miles east of Cape Town, made "sure they had staked their claim properly. They walked around and wet their feet in God's water," said Anglican Archbishop and Harvard Overseer Desmond M. Tutu...
...hope that the inhabitants of the Strand will realize that we have liberated them," Tutu told a news conference later. "They don't have to watch whether Black people are walking on their beaches any longer. They will enjoy the liberation of being able to share...
Tutu said he was afraid that when police took the journalists away they planned to use force against the crowd. On Aug. 19, Tutu recalled, when thousands of Blacks tried to get to the Strand beach, police used whips and dogs to drive them away...
...variety of psychiatric illnesses. But they will not be able to predict precisely when -- or even if -- the affliction will strike, how severe it will be and how long and good a life the baby can expect. As scientists learn to detect ever more minute imperfections in a strand of DNA, it will become increasingly difficult to distinguish between genetic abnormalities and normal human variability. "We haven't thought much about how to draw the line," admits Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Minnesota. "It is going...