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...what was I doing there? Unfortunately, there can be no doubt that a year of being here has taken a certain toll on my attitude. All these months of exposure have infected me with an acute case of resume-itis: the knowledge that absolutely everyone has done more and better things than I have. Example: if I had an internship last summer with a member of congress in Washington, I can rest assured that I will meet at least two classmates who worked for a senator while commuting to New York to learn investment banking, working for the Peace Corps...
...peace anytime soon. Despite the example of Arabs and Israelis in the Middle East and blacks and whites in South Africa, the 1.5 million inhabitants of Ulster seem unable to bury the hatchet unless it is in one another. Part of the reason is that despite the mounting death toll, the problem of Northern Ireland is not considered sufficiently important to hold the attention of governments in London and Dublin, where the matter of Ulster and Irish partition must ultimately be decided. "The British," says Tony Benn, a Labour M.P. in London, "are not remotely interested in the Irish. When...
...Wednesday night, it has become obvious that California builds foolishly but evacuates well. The toll in buildings destroyed or damaged is approaching 700. The projected cost: at least $550 million. The numbers suggest that the state has not learned all the lessons of its previous great fire, in Oakland in 1991. After that terrible conflagration destroyed nearly 3,000 homes, state legislation was passed forbidding construction in high-risk zones with certain flammable materials, such as wooden shingles, and requiring a 35-ft. brush- free perimeter around each structure. But enforcement was left to local authorities...
Although the toll is highest in drug-ridden ghettos, this is not just a big- city phenomenon. Rural Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, best known for Amish festivals and shoofly pie, has seen its drug problems increase as people have moved in from poor neighborhoods in New York City and Philadelphia. Some of the newcomers already harbor the AIDS virus; at least 400 children in the county have either lost or are about to lose a parent to the disease. Often, infected mothers leave large cities and return to places where they grew up, where aunts and grandmothers can take...
...silence takes its toll. With no acceptable outlet for their rage or grief, children often cause trouble in school. Boys, especially, may run afoul of the police. Some teenagers turn to indiscriminate sex or shooting drugs -- as though they are daring the AIDS virus to do to them what it did to their parents...