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...injured 21. Police are yet to finalize their investigation into the source of the blast but Abu Sayyaf operatives are the prime suspects despite the bomb containing TNT - not the normal mortar rounds used in previous Abu Sayyaf bombings. Colonel Coultrup suspects such operations were "confidence runs" designed to train raw recruits for larger missions...
...They're Dressy Cutoffs! Bravo to Lisa Takeuchi Cullen for her article "What (Not) to Wear to Work" [June 9]. I have distributed it to every student I train for internship placement at a college-prep high school in San Diego. Unfortunately, many students think shorts are acceptable work attire. When students come to my office in shorts for an interview, I will not proceed - at which time they try to explain that they're wearing "dress shorts"! Jill Wien Badger, Bonita, Calif...
...during her childhood. Most of all, Jo worries about losing sight of Renee amid all her own concerns surrounding her daughter's weight. "I feel like she's experiencing my weight issues all over again, living my obsession with food," Jo says. "I feel like I'm watching a train wreck, and I can't do anything about...
...rival Taiwan's participation. When China finally rejoined the Games in 1980, the sports-school system was expanded to ensure that Chinese athletes would do their country proud. For many parents, securing three bowls of rice a day for their offspring was enough to convince them that the grueling training was worth it. But by the '90s, with the economy opening up, fewer families were willing, say, to send their daughters to train as weight lifters when they could study computer science instead. After all, for every Olympic champion the sports academies produce, hundreds of thousands of other children fail...
...health impact on the region is shocking. A daily passenger train that runs from Bathinder to Bikaner in neighboring Rajasthan is nicknamed the "Cancer Express" because it routinely fills a dozen cars with patients and their attendants on their way to a charitable hospital. Despite the high incidence of cancer, there is no government-run cancer hospital in the Malwa region, although the government announced plans to build one last year. "Officials sometimes visit our village, but they never seem to do anything," says Santosh, a 35-year-old resident of Jhajjal who was diagnosed with leukemia three years back...