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Tomorrow their junk will be towed to Gin Drinker's Bay, the place designated by the Hong Kong authorities as an elephants' graveyard for the vessels of the boat people. There it will either be burned straight away or await burning with other wrecks on a jetty directly across the...
Neither does anyone else. The men at prayer are among 10,000 surviving Kakure Kirishitan (crypto-Christians)-members of a fossilized faith that is unique in church annals. The poignant tale of the sect begins in 1549, when Jesuit Missionary Francis Xavier brought Roman Catholicism to Japan. The new creed...
In the rest of rural El Salvador, the repression from the right continues. When the insurgents declared that they, like their Vietcong predecessors, would swim like fish in an ocean of peasants, Salvadoran leaders announced their determination to "dry up the ocean." Bodies still pile up by the roadways each...
Such a tumult would ravage the country physically and almost certainly kill tens of thousands, dwarfing in duration and bloodshed the bushwar in Zimbabwe. Besides, the stakes are much larger in the wealthier South Africa, for the Afrikaners, knowing they have nowhere else to go if the Blacks were to...
The brain structure and nervous system of the cat are also special. The divided feline cerebrum offers tantalizing clues to right-brain, left-brain investigations. The highly developed feline "flight-fight" mechanism may provide insights to the response in humans. So useful are cats that tens of thousands of them...