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...outsiders who has penetrated the state-imposed isolation of the so-called AIDS villages in central China. He is all too familiar with the plight of small children orphaned by the disease. On a recent visit to a village in Henan, he watched an 8-year-old boy taking his father out for a walk. The boy was pushing his father along in a creaky wooden cart. The man was dying of AIDS and had been confined to his bed for weeks, too weak to walk. His son suggested the cart, hoping that a little fresh air would energize...
...Paula Rodriguez is asked to whistle to her twin Mirta: "Have you seen my glasses?" Mirta silbos back: "You're wearing them." To the uninitiated, it's all trill and squawk, requiring translation into Spanish by Darias. Later in the playground, Maria whistles to a boy called Luis. After he gives her the fuio acknowledgment she tells him to come and shake a visitor's hand. Luis does so. Teacher Darias explains that coverage depends on topography, wind and the whistler's lungs: "In a valley, the Silbo can be heard 2,500 m away." The youngsters at Lomada School...
...With 80% of the contested seats going to two parties for the first time in 33 years, the DPJ's gains have revived talk that after several misstarts, an era of true multiparty politics is at hand in Japan-and Okada is the country's new political It Boy. In an interview with TIME two days after the election, a beaming Okada said, "I think the public is beginning to be comfortable with the idea of a two-party system." But in a wide-ranging conversation on topics such as North Korea, the U.S.-Japan security alliance, and relations with...
...pioneer of the comix form, Tezuka (1928-1989) has been enjoying a spate of U.S. releases in the last couple of years. Dark Horse continues to publish his Astro Boy series (see TIME.comix review) while Vertical Inc. just released volume four of the gorgeous eight-volume "Buddha" series (see TIME.comix review). Meanwhile VIZ has been publishing the first of the "Phoenix" books - the master's unfinished, twelve volume magnum opus. The fourth, "Phoenix: Karma" (366pp; $15.95) has just been released. The fifth volume, "Resurrection," is due in November. (Sadly, the remaining seven have not yet been contracted for publication.) While...
...chairman. Latham is more complex than the blokey caricature. It's true he's distinctly of his class, neighborhood and generation. But he has been brilliant and relentless, rather than lucky and knockabout, in his political career - which started the day he joined the Labor party as a boy. He's a striver and a bookworm who's never had a brush with cool...