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...they are caught. Miami has the highest violent-crime rate of any American city, and even former priests have been known to pack pistols in their briefcases. So far, however, the tourists are still coming, even if some may be thinking about packing a mercenary kit with their suntan lotion...
...Christmas they went water skiing in Jumby Bay, near Antigua. They go to Europe annually for conferences (49, as they totted them up for the FBI; Ruth may be the first Justice to speak Swedish). Who works harder? On a trip to Israel in 1977 Martin gathered up his suntan lotion, galley proofs of his law review article Collapsible Corporations: Revisiting an Old Misfortune, and made for the pool of the King David Hotel. Ruth headed straight to a debate on the comparative miseries of women under Israeli, Halakic and American law. She never saw water again on the trip...
...French have an itch to colonize. For centuries they explored, exploited and educated on three continents. Now their working tours of Africa, North America and Southeast Asia are over. The reverie fades like a holiday suntan; the legacy lingers like a scar. Why shouldn't that wound, which France inflicted on itself and its colonial subjects, be diagnosed on a big screen? Spurred by conscience, retrospection and, not least, the success of Hollywood movies about the U.S. war in Southeast Asia, French moviemakers are gazing into the rearview mirror of their Vietnam...
...production of copra, dried coconut meat that is collected by a freighter once a month and taken to the main island to be pressed for its oil. All over the island copra is spread on racks to dry in the sun, producing an inescapable smell of warm suntan...
...hour operation, Dr. August's team removed the cancer plus a margin of surrounding tissue, leaving Fallscheer with a 5-cm (about 2- in.) scar in an otherwise normal-looking breast. To catch any residual cancer cells, she received six weeks of daily radiation therapy, which produced a light suntan but left no permanent trace. "A lumpectomy plus radiation does not cure more women than mastectomy," says radiation oncologist Allen Lichter of the University of Michigan, "but it creates fewer physical and emotional scars." Fallscheer concurs: "It was only after I saw Dr. August that I felt I wasn...