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...warm, hazy day at the Harpeth Hills Memorial Gardens. Nancy, wearing a pink maternity suit, kneels down to wipe dirt from a plaque reading HOPE LAUREN GUTHRIE. A woman whose son lies nearby has hinted repeatedly that Hope's plot is due for a resodding. "I'm gonna have to tell her," says Nancy wearily, "'You know what? We don't need to replant that grass because we're gonna dig it up again soon. We're gonna have this baby,'" she glances at her belly and then at the grave, "'and we already know that's where...
...where people routinely have their wallets blessed by Buddhist monks before the weekly lottery, belief in the long shot runs deep. The newspapers are rife with stories of benevolent ghosts who solve financial and familial problems. And last April, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was duped into thinking he could wipe out the national debt by unearthing lost World War II treasure in a muddy cave near the Burmese border. So who can blame Thailand's 700,000 AIDS patients for putting their faith in such cures as bitter melon extract (at one point certified by government officials), magic herbs...
...Paso and Juarez will keep jury-rigging solutions. Last year, when encephalitis broke out in Juarez, El Paso's spray planes "accidentally" crossed the border to wipe out disease-carrying mosquitoes. To reduce air pollution, El Paso is helping Juarez brickmakers redesign their kilns. And to eliminate the epic waits at border crossings, businessmen (from both sides of the border) fought for--and won--a "fast lane" for U.S. and Mexican citizens who are precleared by U.S. law enforcement agencies...
...something has gone badly wrong. The guerrillas are back in the cities and towns. The Kremlin has turned against the civilian it put in charge of Chechnya, Akhmad Kadyrov, and replaced the military commander. And Russian officials from the President down now say it could take many years to wipe out the separatist guerrillas...
...said she was most insulted that Pryor had simply made a unilateral decision to wipe out all existing tradition...