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Spread throughout the jungles that straddle Burma and Thailand, the rebels have settled into a life of well-ordered predictability. They subsist on teak logging and farming, attend church, send their children to school and adhere to a strict penal code (adultery carries the death penalty). Though there is no electricity at Manerplaw headquarters, a generator supplies power for that most prized necessity, a VCR. The leaders tend to be melancholy idealists, sad-eyed dreamers who pass evenings drafting and redrafting a Karen constitution for use in the improbable event that independence will be achieved. Gentle in gesture and speech...
...roar of an airplane engine is one of the few things that bring hope to the Fugnido refugee camp, a desolate stretch of Ethiopia where 57,000 survivors of Sudan's civil war subsist. But on Aug. 7, Fugnido's residents listened in vain for the sound of the Twin Otter carrying Texas Congressman Mickey Leland, 44, who had visited five times before. His plane had crashed nose-first into a mountain 30 miles away, killing all 16 aboard...
Debates can be a feast for information-hungry voters, but most nights Americans must subsist on the Lean Cuisine of 30-second spots. During the three-day period before the debate, at least ten different TV commercials for Bush and Dukakis were airing in Toledo. They were all highly negative in tone, except for two Bush ads filled with morning-in-America imagery. Through their use of MTV-style pacing, voice-overs and quick-flash graphics, many of the spots require multiple viewings before a viewer can sort out the hostile charges. Seen for the first time, these...
...American museums had to subsist on Government money like the Louvre or the National Gallery in London, all would shrink, and many of the best would never have got started. Names like Whitney, Guggenheim, Phillips, Freer and Frick attest to the role played by the private collector in creating the public institution. Today more than ever the one-person museum, named for the man or woman who assembled it and put it in its own building, is a ruling fantasy of the ambitious collector. Why settle for your name on a plaque in the Met when for a few extra...
...Americans. On the Texas coast, Vietnamese refugees now dominate the shrimping industry. The immigrants, who , have come over the past decade, had fished for a living in Viet Nam. They were able to dominate the industry by working together as families. They put in twelve-hour days, subsist mainly on a diet of rice and fish, and often cram several families into a small apartment. They waste nothing. Americans throw back "rough" fish like sheepshead and mullet, but the Vietnamese live on them...