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...Ziemans explained to Vera the difficulties she would face as a refusenik daughter, and she has learned to be wary. She has been studying English privately since she was three, and tosses off expressions like "Come on, Mom" with the exasperated sighs of an American youngster. Yet she has never let her teachers at school know that she can speak English and studies Latin: they might become suspicious and incite their students to harass...
...particularly searing because the victims were schoolchildren. It began when Lori Dann, 30, shot and wounded an eight-year- old boy in the bathroom of the Hubbard Woods Elementary School. Dropping one pistol, she entered a second-grade classroom, where she opened fire with another revolver, killing one youngster and critically wounding four others. Dann fled to a nearby household, where she shot one occupant and barricaded herself in the building alone. When a police SWAT team finally burst in about seven hours later, Dann was found dead. She had shot herself through the head with her third...
...thin wire rod. The percussive duet lasted 52 hours, until a hole the size of a quarter had formed. A few hours later, the team carefully removed the remaining fragments and Molloko emerged. By week's end bird handlers were using a condor puppet to preen the rambunctious youngster and feed it 70 minced baby mice, or "pinkies," daily...
...make $100 a day warning dealers when police are in the area. Sometimes the pint-size apprentice is rewarded with the most fashionable sneakers, bomber jacket or bicycle. The next step up the ladder is runner, a job that can pay more than $300 a day. This is the youngster who transports the drugs to the dealers on the street from the makeshift factories where cocaine powder is cooked into rock-hard crack. Finally, an enterprising young man graduates to the status of dealer, king of the street. In a hot market like New York City, an aggressive teenage dealer...
...youngster living in Parkersburg, W. Va., she had to undergo a transformation from a gawky five-year-old to a championship swimmer...