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...this much. Have you noticed the terrible evasions in the presidential debates, when the most compelling issue of inner city violence was skated over, hidden beneath waves of economic statistics. Hide away in leafy suburbia, and I suppose you can close your mind to the nearby inferno. You can surround yourself within bars and alarms, and nurture a solipsistic terror about everyone outside. But what sort of life is that...
...absence of definitive answers, the Dutch were left with the unforgettable horror. As a cold wind whipped through the weeping willows that surround the apartment complex, Wynanda Pont, a native of Suriname, gazed at the gutted, burned hulk of a building where scorched laundry still hung from clotheslines and window boxes held a few lone geraniums. The 37-year-old teacher had been crocheting by her window across the street when she heard a crash and saw a wall of red flame. "I rushed outside," she recalled. "I can still hear the screaming. I saw a woman throw two children...
...challenge for Coach Tim Wheaton's sixth year will be to find the personnel to surround senior Laurie Uustal, last's year third leading scorer. For a team that struggled to put the ball in the net last year, that could be tough...
...challenge for Coach Tim Wheaton's sixth year will be to find the personnel to surround senior Laurie Uustal, last's year third leading scorer. For a team that struggled to put the ball in the net last year, that could be tough...
...next year's $483.7 million funding for the superconducting supercollider, designed to be the world's biggest atom smasher. The collider is meant to reveal the mysteries of the sub-sub-atomic world by crashing particles together inside an 86-km (54-mile) oval tunnel that will literally surround the town of Waxahachie, Texas. But it also bears the world's biggest price tag: $8.3 billion all told, and rising. That was too super for even the House...