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...many, it's hard to imagine that life will ever return to normal. Samyono, a 65-year-old grandmother discharged from the hospital after getting stitches for a head wound, has resorted to begging. After seven hours walking around her village of Wedi in the hot sun, she has managed to collect 400 rupiah, or 40 cents, in handouts. "I don't know what else to do," says Samyono, "since my home is gone and I have nowhere to go." For her and so many others, the disaster seems to be just beginning...
...statutory rape law was unconstitutional, because it did not allow the accused to argue that he honestly believed the victim was above the age of consent. The immediate result was that Mr. A walked, but the decision's effect rippled powerfully throughout the country. The Irish edition of the Sun, Britain's leading tabloid, called Ireland a pervert's paradise, and its rival the Mirror warned families to lock up their daughters. The government immediately appealed, and Parliament rushed to replace the defunct law, indeed to raise the age of consent for both genders to 17. Nevertheless, at a moment...
DIED. Raymond Davis Jr., 91, chemist who shared the 2002 Nobel Prize for Physics for his arduous experiments in the depths of mines in Ohio and South Dakota that proved the existence of neutrinos--tiny, elusive particles produced by nuclear reactions on the sun; on Long Island...
...want a critic for a guide, this may be the festival for you. Each April in Champaign, Ill., the TV and Chicago Sun-Times film reviewer selects movies--from the famed to the obscure, like U-Carmen eKhayelitsha--that he feels have fallen through the cracks...
...unease at seeing the sunny rows of poplars and hearing the sounds of town children playing just down the road from the remains of torture chambers, low-level barracks and human furnaces. ?It all seemed frighteningly wrong, as in a nightmare,? he wrote. ?It would be fitting if the sun never shone and the grass withered, because this is a place of unutterable terror...