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...Parental pressure, familial obligations, gender roles, dating, sex, drugs, suicide?just about every teen issue is addressed, and the book has struck a chord in India. Chat rooms are buzzing, and sales have topped 15,000 in just six weeks (making the book a best seller in India's small English-language fiction market). A Bombay-based production company bought the film rights in June...
...down the street to meet Bach Dinh Vinh. Now 30, Vinh was studying for a degree in information technology in 1993. A top student in his class, he could speak fluent English and Russian and was learning French. One night, while riding his bicycle back from class, he was struck from behind by a motorbike. He hit his head on the concrete road and was knocked out. Doctors managed to save his life, but he was almost completely paralyzed. Vinh struggled through an agonizing six years of rehabilitation to regain control of his right hand. He has this advice...
TIME: In that first photo op you all had together, I was struck by that picture of Mrs. Kerry reaching for Jack Edwards' thumb to dislodge it from his mouth. Was that just the old reflexes of a mother kicking...
...bombings in the crowded alleys of Mahaneh Yehuda during the intifadeh added to its status as a byword for the horrible inevitability of terrorism, and many Israelis simply stopped coming. Boneh almost gave up after his sister Rose and 10 others were killed in January when a bomber struck on a bus near the center of town--one of two successful suicide attacks in the city this year. Boneh was devastated but forced himself to return to work in the market. "There is a feeling that the city is more alive," he says...
...script. Russian-speaking Trans-Dniestr wants schools to switch to Cyrillic, the script used during Soviet rule. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and the E.U. denounced the separatists' move, with Brussels threatening its own sanctions unless the closures are reversed. Terror Returns UZBEKISTAN Coordinated suicide bombings struck the capital, Tashkent, killing at least three people and wounding eight. A number of suspects were apprehended by Uzbek authorities. The blasts came as 15 people with suspected links to al-Qaeda went on trial in connection with a wave of violence in March that killed almost 50. No Going...