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Five days later, I was released from the prison cells of Harare, after days of interrogations lasting up to six hours each, after sleeping on the floor in cells infested with ticks, after listening to the hungry cries of infants who had not seen the sun for weeks. While some of their mothers would be released in several days after paying fines for loitering, others awaited a seven-year sentence for crimes like having attempted an abortion. Their infants would join them in jail and grow up as prisoners...
Kim’s fun in the Italian sun ended on Jan. 31, when, she said, her passport and visa were stolen...
...IRENE Y. SUN ’07 of Indianapolis, Ind. and Mather House Associate Design Chair...
...intensity of the flicker told the scientists how small the planet was- too small to be a gaseous blob like Neptune- and therefore probably made of rock and ice; the timing told them it?s about three times further from its star than we are from the sun. Its surface temperature is probably below ?360 degrees F, much too frigid to sustain life...
...Greta Garbo's laugh or screen Delilah Hedy Lamarr (who we learn helped patent a frequency-hopping radio-controlled torpedo during WW II), cinema's light becomes the counterpoint to the private sorrows of Mr. Sakamoto and his confidante. The novelist says her love of movies began at the Sun, one of Australia's oldest cinemas, in Broome, Western Australia, and in Dreams it is the medium which mediates a century of darkness...