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Brauwerman offers an explanation as to why the transition has been so easy despite his youth: "The error range between maturity and age is such that people act older and younger than they are. And we're all distributed between 16 and 20, so we all get along well...
Perhaps no people have suffered so tragically in as much obscurity as the people of East Timor. For more than 20 years since the tiny former Portugese colony was brutally annexed by its neighbor Indonesia, the genocide and error that the East Timorese have endured has been completely ignored by the West. Only recently has the terrible story of this former nation been acknowledged, most notably when two Timorese activists were awarded the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize...
...funeral homes in clusters that share hearses, embalming rooms and other services. You may deposit your late Uncle Harry in that luxurious if slightly creepy Colonial house on the corner, but these days you have no guarantee he will stay there. This centralization can increase the risk of administrative errors like the one that occurred recently in Arizona when an SCI cluster facility mistakenly cremated a body that was supposed to be shipped intact to Utah. A spokesman for SCI, however, says such an error is no more likely to occur in a cluster than in any other operation...
...next assignment was finding the Bicentennial Commission's pamphlet on George. Its call number was US4591.290, but by mistake I searched the US 4600 aisle for two minutes. This error would nearly prove fatal. I quickly proceeded to the correct aisle and found pamphlet number three. It looked old enough to be George's autobiography, but that was the least of my concerns. Where were pamphlets numbers 1 and 2? The envelope containing number three showed signs of tampering and foul play, and I once again I suspected the work of the Communist party. I decided not to bother...
...Mercedes, which have had their U.S. revenues run over first by a bad economy and then by Japanese luxury models. "It was not just accidental sheer desire to build a vehicle," says Rick Ford, a senior vice president of Porsche, USA. "With this company we can ill afford an error." Porsche saw its U.S. sales nose-dive from a high...