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...Unlike the Afghans, Karens harbor mixed feelings about the use of children in war, vacillating between denial and pride. They revere childhood enough to try to preserve its innocence. A wooden schoolhouse in a village near Manerplaw is a tidy outpost of chalkboards, geography maps and tattered textbooks. Students wear blue-and-white uniforms and recite their lessons in singsong unison. They study math, history, Karen, English and even Burmese, and there is no time for indoctrination or propaganda. The war is only a few miles away, but little of it intrudes into the classroom...
...that ambulances be sent elsewhere. But many hospitals that used to go on bypass once or twice a year now do so every week. In California emergency rooms open and shut like tollgates depending on the traffic. Because surgeons were too busy, one homeless woman who was transferred to Harbor-UCLA Medical Center to have a kidney stone removed was released with a waste-collection tube protruding from her body. She was told to come back for surgery -- in one month...
...NOTEBOOK: Tickets, based on NCAA policy, will be on sale at the gate for $5 for adults and $2 for fans under age 12...Seniors Chris Bentley and Dave Kramer will be reunited with their Cold Spring Harbor High School teammate, Notre Dame attacker Rob Lynn. Harvard assistant Rich van der Broek '88 will be reunited with former teammate and current Notre Dame goalie Coach Mark Vita '86...It is the fourth year that the NCAA has admitted a team from the West or Midwest as the twelfth seed. In past years, Michigan State has lost the first round game...
Those of you on the brink of conversion may still harbor some reservations because of allegations about widespread Satanism in the heavy metal world. The controversy seems to surface again and again, deterring even the most open-minded from trying metal...
...relations with the government of Vietnam. Washington continues to act as if Hanoi had sent its troops to invade Virginia instead of down the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Since 1975, the U.S. has imposed a trade embargo against Vietnam that has been more effective than the mining of Haiphong harbor ever was. It has helped keep Vietnam's badly managed economy on its knees, which in turn has encouraged a steady flow of refugees to Hong Kong and Malaysia...