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...Soul City' reflects the life and hard times of people in a typical South African urban black township. In fact, most of the series' location shots are taken in Alexandra, one of the oldest and most squalid of South Africa's black slums, just outside Johannesburg. And 'Soul City's clinic, where much of the drama is centered, is based on an actual clinic in Alexandra...
Behind the wheel of his SUV, Frederick Poust III dialed his cell phone. As he hit "send," the 27-year-old blew through a stop sign in rural Hilltown Township, Pa., and slammed into the side of a Grand Cherokee. In the Cherokee's front seat, Patricia Pena turned to see her daughter Morgan, 2, bleeding from massive head wounds...
Behind the wheel of his SUV, Frederick Poust III dialed his cell phone. As he hit "send," the 27-year-old blew through a stop sign in rural Hilltown Township, Pa., and slammed into the side of a Grand Cherokee. In the Cherokee's front seat, Patricia Pena turned to see her daughter Morgan, 2, bleeding from massive head wounds...
...They call him A-Bian, a diminutive that traces to his boyhood in Hsi-chuang, a village 40 minutes from Tainan, Taiwan's fourth-largest city. Renowned for its water chestnuts and mangoes, Hsi-chuang is still a rural community, despite being part of a township with a main road bristling with Toyota dealerships and Nikkomarts. The citizens make their living from the soil, and everyone knows the business of Mrs. Chang down the street, for example, and her son Li who just bought a new Nissan Cefiro. They speak Mandarin with a Taiwanese accent so thick that mainlanders...
...used to finish his homework for the night before lunchtime." His classmates recall a studious, diminutive boy, annoyingly prim, his hand shooting up to provide correct answers to teachers' queries. "He never picked a fight," says Chen Wen-chuan, an elementary-school classmate who still lives in the township, "because he knew he would lose if he did." He was the kind of student whose academic reputation preceded him wherever he went: he was first in his class in elementary school, middle school and high school. His studiousness and scholastic achievement were his defining attributes. The takeaway from his childhood...