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That such stories are far too easy to find is undeniable. Still, there are other children in danger's path--harmed and neglected in a thousand ways that don't offer melodramatic story lines or a chance for TV viewers to play detective--whose photos will never be passed around at press conferences and whose names will never be flashed above a freeway. While we may not know whether the number of kidnapped kids is rising, there is another figure--the number of children on public assistance whose checks go directly to them, not through a parent, because often...
...sympathy and balance. He also unearths a memorable cast of characters who have helped to make Nice such a troubled paradise. Kanigel doesn't see a quiet future for the city. Each day at this time of year 170 flights pile into one of Europe's busiest airports. A thousand hotels and 3,000 restaurants cater for the arrivals, who will spend at least $5 billion this year. Most it is true, leave satisfied. But tourism is a delicate beast and, as Kanigel gently points out, Nice has all but exhausted its resources - environment, physical capacity, attractions. Growth...
...time of lurking new risks over which people feel largely powerless - terrorist cells in the suburbs, underground Iraqi bioweapons labs - a fixation on solvable, specific mysteries is strangely soothing? The public may not yet have made much of a difference capturing terrorists, but thanks to mass alerts that deputized thousands of citizens at a stroke, it has succeeded in bringing home a child or two. At least it's something. At least it makes a dent. Exactly how big a dent is hard to know. The statistics on child abductions are unreliable, unable to settle the matter of whether such...
...later, minor singles were remakes of songs by his old rivals and traveling companions: Little Richard's "Good Golly Miss Molly," Chuck Berry's "Little Queenie" and "Sweet Little Sixteen." Yet Lewis was not one to hide; if the gigs paid a few hundred dollars instead of the thousand he once earned, he was man enough to show up. He had some country hits in the '60s, and in 1968 played Iago in the L.A. production of an "Othello" musical called "Catch My Soul"; he spoke the lines word-perfect, in his deep bayou drawl, and stole the show. "This...
...sometimes spotted along the rugged coast, and there have been sightings of rare species like the small leopard cat, colorful purple heron and several types of eagles (white-bellied, spotted and imperial). One species surprisingly not seen in great numbers, though, is the human one. Only a few thousand visitors drop into the park in an average month, leaving much of Khao Sam Roi Yot in a state of splendid wilderness...