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...sometimes seems as though everyone?Yan Peter Tamban, the desperate miners, processing unit workers like Michael, gold-struck villagers like Freddy Sigarlaki, the army and police?wants things to go on as they are. Or like Fecky, who lives next to a processing unit, and powerless government officials like Bonny, who simply accept that there's no way to stop the mining. Everyone except Daniel Limbong, that is. Unlike the others, he has seen what happened to scores of other mineworkers, what happened to Femmy's baby boy. And now, "we have a report of a second deformed baby born...
...example, only a select few are allowed to grab), with history--as with knowledge, with books--a broad selection could only help the present construction of a fair case. Against the childhood idea of history as something to escape--whose weight and scope made innovation impossible--I was struck by the idea that change was an action, an artifact, an assertion with the power to reorganize history: the effect of emplotment or the famously world-organizing Greek temple...
...GHANA Another Soccer Tragedy - and the Worst Tragedy struck an African football stadium for the fourth time in a month when 126 panicked fans died in a stampede in Accra. A shocked President John Kufuor declared three days of mourning and called for an inquiry into the continent's worst-ever soccer disaster. Witnesses said people were crushed to death while fleeing tear gas fired by police to control rioting near the end of the match. Hometown team Hearts of Oak had just taken the lead against archrival Asante Kotoko. The death toll from the other recent stadium disasters...
...tour of Tainan county to thank supporters in an election he had just lost. His wife, Wu Shu-chen, a narrow-framed woman with a thin face, was walking at the head of the party, Chen was toward the back. A black truck came roaring around a corner and struck Wu, running over her legs. The driver stopped, put the truck in reverse and then backed over her. Chen swears it was a politically motivated attack and that he had been threatened by gangsters during the campaign. He had not heeded the threats, and last-minute vote-buying...
...Fowler has been struck twice by lightning. A retired house painter in Oklahoma City, Okla., Fowler lived through his 19-year-old son Mark's arrest in 1985 for murdering three people in a grocery-store holdup. Mark was sentenced to death. A year later Fowler's mother Anne Laura was raped and murdered, and a man named Robert Lee Miller Jr. was sentenced to die for the crime. The same Oklahoma City police department forensic scientist, Joyce Gilchrist, testified at both trials. But DNA evidence later proved she was wrong about Miller. He was released after 10 years...