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...delivering a baby when she heard about the earthquake on TV. "I just managed to complete the job," Ranjani says, and then nurse, mother and baby boy headed for higher ground. Even more critical, seismologists from Hawaii to Japan had the relevant phone numbers at hand to get in touch with officials in Indian Ocean nations. They, in turn, exhibited little of the indecisiveness that cost countless lives in December. "We were calling harbor masters, civil-defense people, and people in governments," says Barry Hirshorn, a geophysicist at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center near Honolulu. "[If they didn't speak...
...lived with his teacher "like a son," recalls Mazari. He did household chores and spent hours each day practicing the broad range of vocal scales found in classical Afghan music. Mirwais came to revere his master. Today, when they meet, the boy's face glows, and he bows to touch his teacher's feet. "He has good talent," says Mazari, "and, by the kindness of Allah, when Mirwais is 40 years old or so, with practice, he will become great...
SEEING THE POWER OF TOUCH...
...worried that being adopted amounts to a rejection of their birth family--a painful dilemma. Gary Mallon, an adoption expert at the Hunter College School of Social Work, suggests "unpacking the no"--finding out what's behind a teenager's resistance--and offering the option of remaining in touch with birth families while entering adoptive homes. In other cases, teenagers realize that they have to move on. "I knew I didn't want to repeat the lives of my parents, and I didn't know anything else," Jason says, "That's why I wanted a new family...
...also wrote of strange tingly feelings that woke him out of a sound sleep and dark visions of small creatures sitting by his bed that he would reach out to touch before falling unconscious. But whatever demon finally compelled Weise to act also made him plan his assault. First he needed an arsenal and armor. He had only a .22-cal. weapon. So he used it to kill his grandfather Daryl Lussier, who was separated from the grandmother Weise lived with. Lussier was a veteran sergeant with the Red Lake police department. After shooting Lussier and his girlfriend Michelle Sigana...