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...Heng-ming, 86, an army colonel during the period of KMT rule, has the advantage of the long view. Wu still has Communist shrapnel in his throat and stomach from the civil war. When his army retreated to Taiwan, he left behind his wife and infant son. Years later, Wu learned that his wife's father was killed by the abandoned son during the Cultural Revolution. "He tortured him," Wu says. "It was a time when the young were told to turn against their elders." He says he no longer harbors resentment against the Communists and says the ghosts...
...they were seeing. Many of the patients bore the purplish lesions of Kaposi's sarcoma, a rare skin cancer that in this country is usually found only in elderly men of Mediterranean extraction. They had other infections as well: Candida albicans, a fungus that cakes the mouth and throat, making it difficult and painful to speak or eat; herpes, not just the garden variety of sores, but ulcerating infections of the mouth, genitals or anus that raged for months. The patients fell prey to exotic bugs seen more often in animals than humans, like Toxoplasma gondii and Cryptosporidium, which causes...
DIED. Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham, 62, President of Guyana and authoritarian ruler of his Caribbean-rim nation (pop. 800,000) since two years before independence in 1966; during an operation for a throat ailment; in Georgetown, Guyana. Folksy and sharp-witted, with a flair for oratory, he won the 1964 election by playing on tensions between ethnic Indians and blacks and on U.S. and British fears of Marxist Cheddi Jagan, the first pre-independence Premier. Thereafter he blended leftist rhetoric, aggressive nonalignment and a socialist policy that professed economic self-sufficiency but led, partly because of depressed commodity prices...
...flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder butterflies, bright blue and green parrots, and moisture-laden air rich with the scent of vetiver grass and pine. The culmination is the Garganta del Diablo - the Devil's Throat - a giant mass of frothy white water tumbling down over 200 feet. Iguazu can be savored in many ways. For about $60, Helisul, a local operator, will take you on a spectacular 10-minute flight over the falls. Or there's a "Nautical Adventure" tour on motorized rafts helmed by boatmen...
...glimpse the 275 small waterfalls: each vista is more spectacular than the last, and comes with brilliantly-colored butterflies, bright blue and green parrots, and moisture-laden air rich with the scent of vetiver grass and pine. The culmination is the Garganta del Diablo?the Devil's Throat?a giant mass of frothy white water tumbling down over 200 feet...