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Your article on the ousting of Philippine President Joseph Estrada [WORLD, Jan. 29] accurately described how a crowd of a few hundred thousand people claiming to represent the country could distort a democracy. I never participated in any of the rallies--not because I am an Estrada supporter but because I believe the impeachment trial represented a legal and more civilized means for justice to be meted out. I was surprised and disappointed when this process was discontinued; we've now ended up in an untidy limbo of a new, unexpected government in the hands of a leader...
...demanding as this swarm of unofficial chores is in McComb, it is far tougher in districts where one nurse is responsible for up to several thousand students, sometimes spread throughout as many as 10 buildings. That kind of work load is typical in Illinois, where the state school-nursing association lobbied unsuccessfully for tobacco-settlement money to go toward hiring nurses. In such cases schools rely on lunchroom supervisors and secretarial staff for basic first aid and call 911 for anything more complicated, says Phyllis Pelt, director of the school-nurse certification program at the University of Illinois at Chicago...
These needs are even more pressing in the hard sciences, where new professors need lab and research space that Knowles estimates at four to five thousand square feet...
James Nachtwey's photographs of AIDS patients represent more than just a thousand words each. They sometimes have the power to tell the whole story. THEO KINGMA Hollywood...
...under them, taking hits from the sheets of tinfoil. As Jacky applies a thick layer of foundation makeup to her face, and then dabs on retouching cream and then a coating of powder, she talks about how tonight she has to find a customer; she needs to make a thousand baht. She'll work the dance floor at Angel's and, if she can't pick up a foreigner, she'll try Thermae, a sleazy after-hours joint and the evening's last resort for Bangkok's bar girls. If she can find a customer and save some money...